Freddie Mercury's Yamaha G2 Baby Grand Piano
- Maker
- Freddie Mercury (Queen)
- Year
- 1975
- Rank
- 41 of 100
Freddie Mercury's Yamaha G2 Baby Grand Piano
Freddie Mercury's Yamaha G2 Baby Grand Piano by Freddie Mercury (Queen) (1975) is ranked 41 in the FLOAT 100 for Memorabilia. It sold for $2,200,000 on 6 September 2023. Auction record for any composer's piano; the instrument behind Queen's masterpiece.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
Auction record for any composer's piano; the instrument behind Queen's masterpiece.
The piano on which Mercury composed 'Bohemian Rhapsody'; from his Garden Lodge estate
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $2,200,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 6 September 2023
Sotheby's London, 'A World of His Own'. GBP 1,742,000 (~$2.2M).
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08