![]() ![]() Brasted Brothers' factory ultimately closed down in 1970. The Japanese companies Yamaha and Kawai made inroads into the musical marketplace with their larger instruments, as public interest in the minipiano declined. ![]() But from the late 1960s, the piano-buying public appears to have had a renewed appreciation of the merits of larger and more conventionally sized uprights. Most of the other London piano manufacturers emulated Brasted's example and soon began to produce similar diminutive specimens in an attempt to gain sales. Monington & Weston baby grand piano with a mahogany case no. Guitars, drums, flutes, windwood, pianos and more. has classifieds in Ramsgate, Kent for musical instraments. To acquire one, in whichever choice of casework or polish, was to be at the forefront of fashion. Musical intrument for sale, Monington and Weston (London) Baby Grand Piano. With its extraordinary diminutive size but clear and sweet tonal quality, it certainly enjoyed something of a vogue from the mid-to-late 1930s until the mid-1950s. For a number of years, the minipiano appears to have been the smallest and cheapest kind of piano available for anyone to purchase, and as such it was deemed to have 'saved' the piano industry by maintaining sales at a time when the piano was becoming less fashionable. From 1934, the item was manufactured by Brasted Brothers Ltd at the firm's Harringay works, north London, with the brand name Eavestaff attached. The 'minipiano' was a commercial musical curiosity which in almost every way contrasted with the conventional large upright pianos being produced in London during the 1920s and 30s. ![]()
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