![]() ![]() A few of these imported instruments survive, and are named 'Hapsburg Beale'. At eighty years of age, he died in a motoring accident.īeale started his business career as an importer of German upright pianos. In 1906 he conducted a Royal Commission into Patent and Proprietory Medicines (at his own expense). He was also president of the New South Wales Chamber of Commerce and a trustee of the Australian Museum and the Bank of New South Wales (Westpac). He was an accomplished linguist, a great traveller and a fellow of the London Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. He married in 1875 to produce thirteen children. The Beale piano factory was established by Octavius Beale, an Irish born (1850) multi faceted personality. List of Beale serial numbers and date of manufacture Beale pianos history THE BEALE PIANO FACTORY
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