QUESTION: Please tell me about my toy Schoenhut piano. It has the original stool and music book. I inherited it from my father who was born in 1908. I believe that it is in fair condition. — B.A.

The product of Philadelpia toy maker Albert Schoenhut and his company, the toy piano was the first item produced. That was in 1873. The piano reached a peak in popularity in 1876 among tourists ...

Tucked in among other toys from long ago in the Toy Shoppe on the second floor of the Vigo County Historical Society’s museum is a little, black-painted metal baby grand piano. When one sees a toy ...

One of her older items, a Schoenhut toy piano, dates to about 1925 and was an auction bargain at $5. Another lucky find was a palm-size Cracker Jack prize piano from the 1940s that was bought for $12 ...

For better or for worse, as Strategist editors and writers, we cannot turn off our shopping brains. With “Saw Something, Said Something,” we’ll be writing about the tiniest of details that have caught ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. To perform on a toy piano, Chen sits on the floor, Schroeder-of-’Peanuts ...

Twenty minutes remained before their scheduled performance. Scott Paulson and Linda Kernohan quickly navigated a dolly loaded with blanketed instruments among the curious already congregating in the ...

Janice E. Kelsh held four pewter pianos the size of Monopoly tokens in the palm of her hand. “I call these the babies of the bunch,” Kelsh said while standing in a room filled with hundreds of ...