Also, what was the deal with the monkeys?
in 2019, the gold piano shown in the tweet was part of the White Drawing Room in Buckingham Palace. It was not “stolen” or “rescued” from Hussein in the early 1990s. The history of the gold piano dated all the way back to 1856, when it was ordered by the queen’shosted by the Getty Images website showed the piano in the White Drawing Room in 1947.David Winston, a piano restorer and conservator, said it had taken an entire year to restore the gold piano.
So Queen Victoria so liked this strangely old fashioned, 18th-century French style which is known as “singerie” with monkeys all over it engaged in musical pursuits that she actually asked for the decorations of the earlier piano to be laboriously transferred to the new one. On the lid, there’s a brass molding that goes right the way round and it encloses the outline of an earlier piano lid, a slightly smaller one.
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