Rudolph Ibach & Sohn

[mikeneitzel]

Good morning!
Just interested to hear if someone else plays one of these. In my family since purchased new in 1904 in Germany, this is a "Stutzfluegel", 7 1/2 feet. Beautiful and best tone I personally ever played on.

I am a left hand pianist, lost my right arm in a car crash, and deeply enjoy all the incredible works composed for the left hand alone...a bvit frustrating at times... 

[withindale]

Hello Mike

Have you seen the Ibach web pages with old catalogues?

e.g. https://www.ibach.de/Ibach_Museum/kat1892/kat1909.htm
 
You'll see a Stutzflügel mentioned. Is yours actually one of those or another model?

I believe Stutzflügel means Baby Grand.

[indianajo]

The sound of a good piano is a joy even if you only play one note at a time.  I'm glad you found literature you can enjoy.  I play a mean Day Tripper on piano with the left hand only, and sing, mostly because I'm left handed and that piece is bass heavy, which really inspires me.
In the joys you could look forward to, I picked up a Hammond H100 organ for $200, restored it with 71 electrolytic capacitors, and am having a ball playing classic bass lines with my feet.  Unlike a Hammond B3 it has serious bass down to 65 hz, so classic string bass lines like Inna Godda Divida  and They Call me Da Breeze are possible with the feet only.  The H100 has a string bass feature that sounds plucked.  With the bass line learned you can play the rhythm guitar or organ lead with a hand. Then you can sing on top of that.  I post to organforum.com if you want to know other good  model organs possibly cheaper in Europe than a Hammond.  Or AndyG will give you his time.  
I learned to use the feet to play pedals in a year by playing the first 8 measures of Passacaglia and Fugue in Cmin a thousand times, then moving on to the whole first two pages over a year's time.  I'm getting pretty good in socks, but playing accurately in shoes is still a bit beyond me.  Oh, well 40 more years to practice if I am lucky.