PIANO WITH TIES TO JOHN LENNON, YOKO ONO AND ANDY WHARHOL TO GO ON THE AUCTION

Piano once owned by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, later given to Andy Warhol, to be auctioned in Towson.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John purchased the 1929 Grand Model D Piano from the Baldwin Factory in New York during the late 70s.

John made a clever purchase of a piano that was among the last of its kind produced in the United States before the 1929 stock market crash that ushered in The Great Depression.

John purchased the second-hand piano in excellent condition from the Baldwin Retail Store at 58th and 7th Avenue in 1978. The same year, Lennon famously celebrated his 38th and his son Sean’s 3rd birthday at Tavern on the Green, a fixture in Manhattan until its closure due to the 2009 recession.

John, Yoko and Sam Green, 1977.

During that period, John was putting the finishing touches on what would be his enormously popular comeback album Double Fantasy which would earn Lennon a posthumous Grammy.

Often during that period, John Lennon would go to Fire Island to visit his friend Sam and find creative solace with his Baldwin as a vehicle for his inspiration.

Doubtless, the Baldwin piano evoked poignant memories of Lennon’s final creative efforts. 

Not long after John Lennon was fatally shot, Sam Green gave the piano a new and temporary location at the headquarters of The Interview Magazine, founded by Andy Warhol.

Green promoted many of Andy Warhol’s early works and produced his films. After the Baldwin piano spent the early to mid-1980s in The Interview offices, Green loaned it to The New York Academy of Art, co-founded by Warhol, who died in 1987. In the ensuing years, Sam Green fought a protracted legal battle to get the piano back.

 

John and Andy Wharhol

Just when the legal saga had reached its conclusion, another scandal followed–the piano was nowhere to be found. 

Later, the missing Lennon-Ono-Green-Warhol piano, which was tracked down to Arab, Alabama under the ownership of Buddy Bain.

In 2003, Mansoor Emral Shaool purchased the piano from Buddy Bain. The Shaool family is prepared for the next chapter in the Odyssey of this legendary piano, this time, in the service of students in need.

Proceeds from the sale of the Lennon-Ono-Green-Warhol piano will be used to create a scholarship to Mercersburg Academy, ranked in the top 20 boarding schools in the nation for its low student-teacher ratios, strong academic standards, extracurricular activities, and outstanding alumni/ae.

 

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