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Elvis Presley's piano comes up for auction valued at $ 1 million.
Los Angeles (USA), July 27 .- The Elvis Presley white piano valued at one million dollars (about 770 000 euros to change today) will be made available to the next highest bidder on August 14 as part of a more than 270 auction with memories of the "king of rock", reported The Commercial Appeal newspaper.
The Grand Piano Knabe made the house was touched by, aika gold, artists such as WC Handy, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Cab Calloway Presley before you purchased it in 1957.
That instrument had belonged to the Ellis Auditorium in Memphis, Tennessee, between 1930 and 1957 and, according to local media, had a sentimental value to the singer as a child attended gospel concerts, often performing at this venue., buy darkfall gold,
Originally the piano was brown Elvis asked the manufacturer but it reformed in white with gold lines before he was to become one of the centerpieces of his music room at Graceland.
According to George Klein, a friend of Elvis, the artist prrred to entertain his guests with that instrument instead of guitar with, cheap darkfall gold, which he appeared in concert.
The piano will be the most expensive piece of the auction on the "King of Rock" on 14 August organized by Heritage Auction Galleries, which estimates its value at one million dollars, although among the more than 270 memories of Presley were found other objects that could reach large amounts in the auction.
One is the original contract he signed Elvis to RCA Records in 1955, qualified Garry Shrum, an expert on music of the auction house as "the first major rock & roll that was signed" and may exceed $ 150,000 (115,000 euros).
Among the souvenirs for sale is the purchase agreement valued at $ 35,000 Graceland (26 900 euros), a handwritten letter from Elvis to his girlfriend Anita Wood in 1958 for 75,000 dollars (57,000), a 1976 Triumph convertible gift from the artist to girlfriend Ginger Alden estimated at 70,000 dollars (53 900) and a diamond opal and diamond for 50,000 (38 500).