Cremona Style A Art Piano

Here is a Cremona Arts and Crafts Style No. 1 made by the Marquette Piano Company of Chicago, circa 1912, recently restored by D.C. Ramey Piano Company. It was one of the first art glass pianos, introduced in 1910 a few weeks after the similarly styled Seeburg C hit the market. It features a piano with mandolin attachment (flat wooden “paddles” striking the strings on edge) showcased in a Mahogany cabinet with three art glass panels depicting a steam locomotive passing a swan swimming in a lake framed with art glass post lamps. It is playing "Aggravatin’ Papa Blues" (by Roy Turk and J. Russell Robinson) from Cremona music roll A-960 issued in 1923.