Whatever else happens to your piano - or any pianos that you may know - we believe that it is vital that as many data as possible are collected and recorded.  The 'ordinary' pianos are just as much a part of history as the 'special' ones.  We hope that you are familiar with the two published volumes of piano data, both written by the distinguished academic Martha Novak Clinkscale, and published by Oxford University Press:

Makers of the Piano - Volume 1, 1700 - 1820, and Volume 2, 1820 - 1860.

Martha and her Colleague John Watson (of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) are continuing to enlarge the database which is the foundation for these two books, and we all have a responsibility to contribute what we can to this, undoubtedly the leading collection of  such information.  

Please Register Your Piano  by visiting www.earlypianos.org  and filling in the simple on-line form.  Pictures are of course a great help, and these can be sent to: info@earlypianos.org

You may have gathered that these two friends are based in the U.S.A., but fear not - Martha knows London much better than I do!