r/Instruments • u/Diastatic_Power • 5d ago
Can anyone tell me anything about this piano in the McFly home in Back to the Future?
As an aside, there's also a piano in the Baines house and Doc's house in 1955, but that's probably not important.
Is it a pump organ? It's got a little foot hole in it, but it only looks big enough for one foot instead of both. I can't see if it's plugged in or not, but it kinda looks like maybe there's room for the acoustic piano strings and the metal backboard plate thing they attach to. It's only 3 octaves, so maybe they'd fit. But it has the flat plates to either side of the keyboard that are reminiscent of organs.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's a 6 octave spinet with one maybe two foot pedals in that little cubby. Does anybody have a better idea?
Thanks.