Scale-92, Style-30
Description
Full Concert Grand
Possible serial # 61500 or 61290
Case #4225 with legs stamped #9878
8’7” in length
37.5” wide tail
“Agrafe Bridge Throughout”
Full cast iron frame
Originally Edwin Brown Action (now modified)
Brazilian Rosewood
Straight molding
Soundboard is free-floating and suspended, resting on dowels and does not touch the case
Restorative Work Needed
Action
Keyboard and Action Frame
Damper Action
Pedals and Pedal Trapwork
Case Finish
Interior Structure
Description
Full Concert Grand
Serial # 66725
Case #xxxx
8’7” in length
“Agrafe Bridge Throughout”
“Swiss Action”, (all wood framing, flanges and rocker attachment to wippens)
Brazilian Rosewood
Straight Molding
Soundboard is free-floating and suspended, resting on dowels and does not touch the case.
Restorative Work Needed
Action
Keyboard and Action Frame
Damper Action
Pedals and Pedal Trapwork
Case Finish
Interior Structure
Description
Full Concert Grand
Serial # 67815
Case #3145
8’7” in length
With legs stamped ??? with 43.5” wide tail
Full cast iron frame,
“Agrafe Bridge Throughout”, with “Swiss Action”
All wood framing, flanges and rocker attachment to wippens
Brazilian rosewood
Straight molding
Soundboard is free-floating and suspended
Resting on dowels and does not touch the case
Restorative Work Needed
Action
Keyboard and Action Frame
Damper Action
Pedals and Pedal Trapwork
Case Finish
Interior Structure
Description
Full Concert Grand
8'7" in length
Serial #73000
Case #4028
Completed November 10, 1886
Brazilian Rosewood, with wide tail.
"Agrafe Bridge Throughout".
Sent to "152". This means sent to Chickering Store in Boston and nearly certain, based on the many shipping holes around the keyblock locations under keybed, that this was a Chickering-owned piano retained for concert purposes.
Soundboard is free-floating and suspended, resting on "pillars" and soundboard does not touch the case.
"Swiss Action", (meaning current Erard system used in most all grands now)
Restorative Work Needed
Action
New hammers & hammer shanks only, restore original repetitions
Keyboard and Action Frame
Necessary keyboard work.
Damper Action
Restore original
Pedals and Pedal Trapwork
Rebushing, re-leathering, and refelting (as needed).
Case Finish
Full case refinishing
Interior Structure
Retain and restore original soundboard, restring