---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Ron, I really like Tom's input - ++++++++++++++ It seems that Chickering was continuing to invent the piano long after everyone else was done. (I want to attribute this to the historical rivalry with Steinway, reluctance to accept ideas that originated with S&S.) I don't think there was any make less associated with standard specifications, nor any make with a greater number of scales. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sort of the same as mine, only a lot cleaner. To paraphrase Bill Brandom, I believe I'd go with the original measurements. One of the things I've always loved about Chickering is that they simply kept on with (what I consider to be) real piano experiments long after others had given in to "metooism". Sure don't like everything they did, but they really turned out some simply marvelous musical instruments along the way. If the Renner stuff matches up well for you, and you can make the touch work, fly. Best. Horace At 02:10 AM 10/3/99 -0400, you wrote: > > Horace Greeley wrote: >> >> Which Chickering? > > Uh.....it's a 5' 10" model. No model number/letter, per se. Ser. #138577. >> >> When? > > 1924-25 or thereabouts. >> >> Whose action? > > Chickering's very own, it appears. Wooden rails, iron hangers. > Standard-looking whippens - not some funky design. The kind without > hammershank cushions (cubes). I'm updating it to Renner stuff. Universal > whippen with a tall heel to match the profile of the originals. Seems to work > out just fine. >> >> Nothing was much "standard" on some of their models, most notably >> the "quarter" and "parlor" grands w/ brass action parts. Still, I think >> that >> things built after WWI were probably more "standard" than those built >> previously. > > None of that brass crap in this one. And it isn't a quarter grand, either. It > has about the best sound I've ever heard in a Chickering. Nice, mellow bass > without getting thuddy, and a beautiful singing capo. The top capo isn't > quite as nice, but it's not exactly dead, either. >> >> Hope all is well with you and yours. > > Thanks! We're all doing dandily. Ditto to you. > -- > Ron Torrella, RPT > Piano Technician > University of Michigan "Dese are de conditions dat prevail." > School of Music --Jimmy Durante > 734/764-6207 (office/shop) > 734/763-5097 (fax) > 734/572-7663 (home) > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/de/b4/a7/88/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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