Hi all.
I had an interesting find this morning. I'm looking at a 1937 Chickering quarter grand we have in the "green room" here that is rarely used. I'm hoping to recondition it enough to be a floater grand when I pull a piano out of a practice room, classroom, faculty office etc. for major surgery.
The interesting thing when I took the keys off the frame were what looks like conical felt front rail punchings. I've seen really old punchings before so I doubt that years of compression formed them this way.
I really like the conicals we can buy now, but does anyone know about the Chickering inventions like this. Of course, since Chickering was sold to Aeolean in 1932, it's not really a Chickering, but maybe Aeolean inherited lots and lots of parts when they bought them?
Also on key #1 was stamped Jan, 1917. Wonder if they had tons of key sets sitting around for 20 years too?
I'm ready for some education.
thanks
Paul
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Paul T. Williams RPT
Director of Piano Services
School of Music
813 Assembly St
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
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