A 1912, Schiedmayer model 15 grand piano for sale with a harpsichord style mahogany cabinet with bevelled panels and boxwood and satinwood stringing inlay in geometric designs. The square, high piano cheeks are hinged and fold out to allow the players hands to be visible. The Arts and Crafts style, music desk is in an openwork design featuring folkloric motifs of stylised birds, flowers, hearts and a central tree. The eight baluster legs are attached to a sinuous cross stretcher. Piano has a traditional shaped two-pedal lyre with volute embellishment. Piano has an eighty-eight note keyboard and a two-pedal lyre. Price includes restoration.

After the death of Dieudonné, the workshop was renamed Schiedmayer Pianofortefabrik, and after 1845, when Adolf and Hermann Schiedmayer, the older sons of Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer, joined the firm, Schiedmayer & Sons, Pianoforte Factory. From 1821 to 1969 the factory was on what was then Neckerstrasse 14-16 and is now Konrad Adenauer Strasse in Stuttgart. This lot is occupied today by the State High School for Music and Representative Arts and by the House of History. In 1909, a major exhibit to commemorate the centenary of the firm was held in Stuttgart at the Royal Center for Industry and Trade (Today House of Commerce). Among the visitors were Württemberg’s King William II and his wife Charlotte.