![]() However, the president’s own piano is not “the White House piano”. Bush and Gerald Ford, virtually all the American presidents owned a piano, or a harpsichord. In fact with the main exception of George W. John F Kennedy (35th) had an Ivers & Pond (1880-1983) grand piano.Warren G Harding (29th) had an electric player piano made by A.B. ![]() ![]() Abraham Lincoln (26th) had both a Chickering square and upright.James Buchanan (15th) was the first to have a grand piano, a Chickering (Boston, 1823-1983).Thomas Jefferson (3rd) had a square piano made by Astor & Co.George Washington (1st President) had a square piano made by Schoene & Vinsen (London, 1793-1806).Most presidents had a piano of their own, for instance… Pianos play an integral part in the history of music at the White House.
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