Duke Ellington signed the inside of this Surf Ballroom baby grand piano after a performance there. "The Duke". Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist and leader of a jzz orchestra form 1923 until his death in 1974.
2021.002.006 [Piano, Baby Grand]
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