You must remember this piano.
An upright with only 58 keys — used for the song “As Time Goes By” in the classic film “Casablanca” — was auctioned yesterday for more than $600,000.
Bidding began at $350,000 for the small green piano at Sotheby’s in Midtown, and it was won by an unidentified phone bidder.
It appears in the 1942 film’s iconic flashback scene, in which Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) toast as Sam (Dooley Wilson) sings at the keys.
Rachel Kaufman, a professional pianist invited by Sotheby’s, played “As Time Goes By” on it just before the bidding yesterday.
“It was very emotional to play. I’m still choked up,” said Kaufman, 43, of Brooklyn.
“There’s something magical about this piano,” she added.
It was last bought for $154,000 in 1988 by a Japanese collector, who offered it this year, the film’s 70th anniversary.