![]() ![]() Purchased this piano along with Scale-77, below in Boston from Peter Murphy's.Ħ) "Scale-94", Style-22, "Semi Grand" Serial #65390,("156" means went to and was sold from the factory store in Boston) completed May 23, 1883, 7'4", (possibly 7'3") Brazilian Rosewood, "Agrafe Bridge throughout", "Swiss Action", Purchased this and the above at an old piano shop in Boston.ħ) "Scale-109-C", Serial # 86025, Mahogany, Swiss Action, 6'3". Excepting the ghastly "yellowizing", with house paint, it is entirely original condition and still can "charm". Was possibly an Ebonized piano wood seems to be Mahogany, (currently painted yellow - I have called this one the "Yellow Submarine") This piano, I had in my apartment for a spell and Stephen played this one. (Purchased in Darien, CT, whose owners acquired at a church in Boston) I believe this was a Chickering-owned traveling concert piano for years, evidenced by the many scew holes in the keybed, for traveling.Ĥ) Scale "33-B", "Style-8", "Large Grand", (Full Concert Grand) 8'5", 3/4 plate, "Agraffe Bridge Throughout", "Plain-Strung" (as Chickering called it = Straight Strung,) Brazilian Rosewood, with "Swiss Action".ĥ) "Scale-98 or 77", "Style-30", "Semi-Grand", (book says "Grand Full"), 7'9", Serial # 72210, (number may be inaccurate) completed March 25, 1886, "Agrafe Bridge Throughout", with "Edwin Brown Action". "Swiss Action", (meaning current Erard system used in most all grands now) Stephen tried this piano at Yonkers. Soundboard is free-floating and suspended, resting on dowels and does not touch the case. (Purchased on eBay, from a musical instrument company in Tennessee.)ģ) "Scale-95", Style-"U", 8'7", serial #73,000, completed November 10, 1886, Full Concert Grand, Brazilian Rosewood, with extremely wide tail (ala Bösendorfer Imperial) Sent to "152" (means sent to Chickering Store in Boston) "Agrafe Bridge Throughout". It is my hope with careful steeling-wooling, we might find traces and identify. (same piano as my "3)" listed piano but with more plate connections and extra plate material under strings - cannot yet locate serial # which was painted over when plate was rebronzed. (Purchased at Cunningham Piano in Philadelphia in early 1990's, cannot yet find serial number, but is from late 1880's)Ģ) "Scale-95", "Style-U”, Full Concert Grand, 8'7", with extremely wide tail, "Agrafe Bridge Throughout", with "Swiss Action", Brazilian Rosewood, Soundboard is free-floating and suspended, resting on dowels and does not touch the case. (As best described from information at hand from my vintage catalogs and Smithsonian records)ġ) Style "U", (possible "Scale-105") 8'10", Full Concert Grand with Harmonic Bar/Capo D'Astro Bar in top two treble sections "Edwin Brown Action", my guess it is made late 1880's with tail width similar to Steinway "D". I know there are other piano people that have a passion for Chickerings as well. īetween you, Craig, Robin Hufford and me and a person name "Chickering9", we should perhaps think about putting together a little Chickering Symposium somewhere. I am hoping with careful steel wooling, I might be able to uncover traces of them. Thus it often comes as a surprise to Columbia University students, in the midst of their first chemistry exam, to find a question like this: How many piano tuners. Frustratingly, this and another concert piano, a Scale-95, have no serial numbers. First-year chemistry students often learn how scientific knowledge is applied, particularly around specifics such as the building blocks and phases of matter, the basics of thermodynamics, and the intricacies of organic chemistry. This instrument, I hope to have on a concert stage here in New York City when completed. I'm hopefully soon to begin the complete a comprehensive restoration of my first one, which I believe is a Scale 105, Style "U", 8'10" Concert Grand from the later 1880's with an Edwin Brown Action with Harmonic Bar. ![]() I have a collection of seven of them, posted below. Craig from Hampshire Piano in Holyoke kindly gave me your contact information as someone who, like me, is deeply interested in Chickering pianos. :POPULAR ARTISTS: Chano Dominguez - Beirut - Loren Humphrey of Guards - Louis Logic - Evan Mast of Abuela - Sufjan Stevens - Sebastien Tellier - Mike Stroud of Ratatat - Paul Savoy of A-ha Sharon Van Etten - The Reverend Vince Anderson - Eitan Kenner - Dan Zanes - Gotye - Dungen - Slavic Soul Party - Esperanza Spalding - Elsa Nilsson - Talib Kweli :INSTITUTIONS: BRIC Arts Media House - Princeton University - Brooklyn Music School - Browning School - Packer Collegiate Institute - The Nightingale-Bamford School - Excellence Charter School - Leadership Prep Charter School - Uncommon Schools - The High School for Enterprise, Business & Technology - Northwestern University - American Museum of Natural History - U.S.My name is Tali and I am a piano tuner here in New York City. ![]()
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