Only pre-qualified bidders can bid in this auction. The auction for this piano is currently running on eBay and ends at 8pm EDT on Sunday August 20th. Auctioned again in June 2016, it again failed to sell. It was put up for sale at The Ultimate Elvis Auction at Memphis’ Peabody Hotel in 2010, and was expected to make over $1m, but failed to sell. The piano was then sold into private hands (the identity of the owner is not known). Vocalist Jimmy Velvet subsequently purchased the piano for his Elvis Presley museum in Memphis.
The white Knabe piano was eventually sold in 1976 to the Sturges Recording Studio and used on many classic albums including works by Jerry Lee Lewis. In 2015 the gold Kimball fetched $600,000 at auction. Pricilla had it painted gold to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, and this now took pride of place at Gracelands. Earlier Elvis had purchased this instrument for his mother, but it was too big for her house. However in 1968 Pricilla Presley, presented her husband with a 1928 Kimball piano. Presley, knowing its unique history, purchased the piano in 1957, had it refurbished in white, added a matching bench, and kept it at Gracelands in the music room. Most of America’s “piano greats” of that time (Ellington, Basie etc.) will have undoubtedly played it. It was the house piano at Memphis’ Ellis Auditorium during the 1930s, 40s, and early 50s. (Baltimore) built this piano (serial #70545) in 1912. The white Knabe grand piano once owned by Elvis Presley, and installed in the music room at Gracelands from 1957-1969, has just been put up for sale on eBay.
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