{"id":5427,"date":"2012-09-05T10:58:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T10:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2022-02-05T00:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T00:09:06","slug":"imagine-owning-a-part-of-music-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/imagine-owning-a-part-of-music-history-5427\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine Owning a Part of Music History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to own a white grand piano just like the one John Lennon had and played in the famous video for his song Imagine? Or maybe you rather want to own Lennon&#8217;s estate in Weybridge which is now up for sale?<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the 70th birthday of legendary musician and songwriter John Lennon, Steinway &#038; Sons introduced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steinway.com\/imagine\" target=\"ext\" rel=\"noopener\">Imagine Series Limited Edition<\/a> piano in 2010. The <em>Imagine Series Limited Edition<\/em> is modeled after the white Steinway grand piano that John Lennon presented to Yoko Ono on her birthday in 1971, which is still at their famous Manhattan residence where Ono lives.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lennon &#038; Ono at Tittehurst\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/LennonOnoTittehurst.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lennon & Ono at Tittenhurst<\/p><\/div>The music desk of each piano incorporates one of four different John Lennon original drawings. &#8220;Come Together&#8221;, the title of the opening track on the Beatles\u2019 historic album, \u201cAbbey Road,\u201d reflects John Lennon\u2019s desire to bring people together. &#8220;Grand Piano&#8221; is a drawing that captures the songwriting process &#8211; as musician and piano become one. &#8220;Freda People&#8221; exemplifies John Lennon\u2019s passion for using music for the benefit of mankind.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/lennonatpiano.jpg\" title=\"John Lennon - Self portrait\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" height=\"193\" \/>&#8220;Self Portrait&#8221; is perhaps John Lennon&#8217;s most famous drawing &#8211; as just a few marks on the page and it\u2019s unmistakably John.<\/p>\n<p>The Imagine Series is available in the following Steinway &#038; Sons grand piano sizes: Model M (170 cm), Model O (180 cm), Model A (188 cm), Model B (211 cm), Model D (274 cm)<\/p>\n<p>To enable the music in it&#8217;s original setting, there is now a rare opportunity to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightmove.co.uk\/property-for-sale\/property-35214670.html\/svr\/1714;jsessionid=9919D34C724A69C9FCCDD34B3562B905\" target=\"ext\" rel=\"noopener\">purchase John Lennon\u00b4s luxuriously finished former family home<\/a> 1964-68, set in about 1.5 acres of exquisite gardens within the renowned St George\u2019s Hill Estate in Weybridge, Surrey, UK.  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