Miniature Grand Piano

A grand piano for a dollhouse music room, drawing room or recital scene, held to the 1:12 dollhouse scale used across the range. It is the sort of piece that gives a room a reason to exist: a corner cleared to take it, a chair drawn up beside it, a rug underneath and a picture on the wall above. Working to 1:12 is what lets the piano sit convincingly beside the seating, tables and rugs already in a miniature room, and it is the piece a smaller room can be arranged around.

You pay $78.99, and the compare-at price is $100.99. Three finishes are listed: white, black and mahogany. Those are the option labels, so this is one piano offered in three finishes rather than three different pieces. Three photographs come with this piece, all labelled as option photos, one for each finish, so every finish can be looked at before you decide. There is no multi-buy badge on the page, so the two figures above are the only prices shown.

It is listed under Home Accessories, with the clocks, boxes and small pieces that give a room something to look at, and it works alongside the seating and tables from Mini Furniture when you are filling out the rest of the floor. Stationery Props covers the smaller clutter that makes a music room look used rather than staged.

In a drawing room the piano can take the wall opposite the sofa; in a smaller build it can stand alone in a room box with nothing but a chair and a picture, which is often enough to establish the scene. A piano also gives a room its scale, in the sense that a chair or a table placed beside it looks right at a size that would read as toy-like on its own. White is the quietest of the three finishes, black the most formal, and mahogany the one closest to the other wooden furniture on the site.

This is a display miniature, so it is there to be arranged and photographed rather than handled. Lift it by the body of the piece, set it down on a flat surface where it will not be knocked, and dust it with a soft dry brush instead of a damp cloth, working from the top of the piece downwards rather than back and forth across it.