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The instrument comes with a certificate of authentication
from ABBA co-founder Benny Andersson, who describes it as "one
of a kind and a great source of inspiration".
It was designed by Swedish instrument-maker Georg Bolin and
comes from the collection of Atlantis Grammofon, formerly known
as Metronome Studios, in Stockholm where ABBA recorded the song
released in 1976, Sotheby's said on Thursday.
Bolin's piano was built for the American jazz pianist and
composer Bill Evans, who died in 1980. It was described in the
New York Times in 1964 as a "Space-Age piano" that "gives the
pianist the sensation of playing 'directly on the strings' as a
guitarist would," Sotheby's said.
"The piano itself is an instrument of real importance and with
the added ABBA provenance we expect it will have worldwide
appeal,” Philip Errington, Sotheby’s Specialist in Books and
Manuscripts, said in a statement. The London sale is scheduled
for Sept 29.
Sotheby's said John Lennon’s Steinway upright piano, on which he
composed "Imagine", sold for 1.67 million pounds in 2000 while
the upright piano in Rick’s Cafe in the movie "Casablanca" sold
for $3.4 million in 2014.
($1 = 0.6445 pounds)
(Editing by Michael Roddy and Andrew Heavens)
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