Irmbach: Chernihiv

[Barbara Richmond]

It's not much, but my linguist friend said the language could be Ukrainian
because a there is no letter in Russian that looks like an I.  (That's why
he wanted to see a picture of the writing.)

Barbara Richmond, RPT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cy Shuster" <741662027@charter.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Irmbach: Chernihiv


> John,
>
> According to my father-in-law, the first word is very likely "Chernihiv",
a
> city in Western Ukraine (second one on this list):
>
> http://www.citypopulation.de/Ukraine.html#3720
>
> The lowercase "r" is a "g", which looks like a Greek gamma.  It would have
> an "h" sound in the first word, and a "v" sound in the middle of the three
> words below (aroo-vo-vo, meaning something of "aroov").
>
> Does this ring a bell with anyone else?
>
> --Cy Shuster--
> Rochester, MN
>
>
> > Further to my search of the manufacturer of an Irmback piano, as close
as
> > I  can get it, the cyrillic spelling on the inside of this
> >piano is yEPHIrIB,
> > > who is likely the maker.
> > >
> > > >Above this is written ANnAOM APYrOrO CrYNEHR. The second letter of
the
> > > second word is a backward N and the last >letter of the last word is a
> > > backward R.
> > >
> > > >Who made it?
> > >
> > > >John Lillico,
> > > >Oakville ON  Canada
>
>
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