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  • 1.  Chickering grands

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 01-31-2023 10:40
    I’m looking for some info on a Chickering grand. The serial number is 144221E. I haven’t looked at it yet, but the owner said the plate number is 145. I don’t see a scale 145 in Travis’ Guide to Stringing book. Ther is a scale for “E”. I’m considering getting for rebuilding. Anyone familiar with this model?
    Thanks
    Stewart Freedman

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  • 2.  RE: Chickering grands

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 01-31-2023 11:45
    Stewart,

    The string scale charts which I obtained from Paul Monachino include the Chickering 145 scale. Feel free to look me up at bdshull@aol.com.

    Regards,

    Bill

    Bill Shull, RPT, M.Mus.
    www.shullpiano.com
    www.periodpiano.org
    909 796-4226

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  • 3.  RE: Chickering grands

    Member
    Posted 01-31-2023 11:56
    The serial number indicates 1927 as the year it was made. I suggest you contact Greg Bennett at the Chickering Foundation and Bill Schull on the West Coast. There is a table and good discussion about scales on the Chickering Foundation web site. The table goes as far as 1900 and for sure other scales like the 121 Quarter Grand where made. Pictures of the plate stampings would help. For the 121 stamping is embossed in the tuning pin webbing

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    James Kelly
    Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
    Pawleys Island SC
    (843) 325-4357
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  • 4.  RE: Chickering grands

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 02-01-2023 08:46
    Thanks for the responses.

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    Stewart Freedman, RPT
    Freedman Piano Service
    Akron, OH
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  • 5.  RE: Chickering grands

    Member
    Posted 02-01-2023 09:37
    I believe the E is a style number. There is a Chickering catalog on the web site for Antique Piano Shop located in TN They have an extensive library of literature and catalogs worth checking out

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    James Kelly
    Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
    Pawleys Island SC
    (843) 325-4357
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  • 6.  RE: Chickering grands

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 02-01-2023 11:20
    Here is a link to the Antique Piano Shop online museum:
      https://antiquepianoshop.com/online-museum/

    A remarkable resource!

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    John Rhodes
    Vancouver WA
    (360) 721-0728
    jrhodes@pacifier.com
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