John Brinsmead grand

[richard black]

Wondered if anyone else has come across anything like the John Brinsmead grand piano I played in a concert in a London church the other week. It was 200cm-ish size, at a guess about 80 years old (couldn't find any kind of serial number on it) and, unusually for a British piano of that age, had three pedals. The fall board was split and folded twice, like early-20th-century Broadwoods. It wasn't in the very best of health but it sounded very sweet and the action was _amazingly_ responsive - felt as if there was no limit to how fast one could trill on it, for instance.

Of course I looked up the obvious sources on the internet, and didn't find much, but most of all I just wondered if anyone knew anything about the action on these instruments - anything clever going on, or just the usual, very well made?

[ionian_tinnear]

A quick Google search on 'john brinsmead grand piano' found:

https://www.piano-tuners.org/history/brinsmead.html

An interesting pdf at https://www.brinsmead.net/brincatalog.pdf

and many other links.