Recently on eBay I came across the same model piano as the upright piano on the set of the Ricardo’s apartment on the “I LOVE LUCY” TV show, for sale by eBay seller “909jordan“. It is a Story & Clark Spinet piano serial # 207633 circa 1950 pictured below.

The spinet piano was made smaller than the traditional upright piano using a different mechanism to produce the sound due to the smaller size,  resulting in some loss of sound quality  and dynamics.

That said, the piano pictured here is just like the one on the show and the woodwork is finely crafted in the French style. On set the piano was seen in the Ricard’s living room usually against the back wall beneath a painting in Series one,  and from about Series two,  in the window alcove of the Ricardo’s second apartment.

Desi sings “There’s A Brand New Baby In Our House” to piano accompaniment from the “I Love Lucy” episode entitled “Sales Resistance”.