Dunkley Music of Boise was founded by William K. and Dorothy Dunkley in 1950. William and his brother started a piano store in Ogden, Utah in 1946. Since it was after WWII new pianos weren't so readily available. They made a trip to Chicago and purchased a railroad car containing used pianos. William K. wanted to represent the best in pianos one brand being Steinway & Sons. So William and his wife moved to Boise in 1950 and opened Dunkley Music. The stores theme is "the richest child is poor without music". How different would our lives be if there was no music? I can remember playing one of my first piano recitals at the store.
This Steinway piano was owned by the late Vladimir Horowitz. Horowitz was considered to be one of the greatest pianists of the 20th Century. He first debuted in 1928 and was called a tornado unleashed. He purchased this piano in 1935 and it traveled with him all over the world. The piano has been traveling around the Idaho region before it heads back to its home in New York.
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