At 13:50 11/28/2004, you wrote: >Hi Joe, > >I have seen a Chickering piano that the owner called a cocked hat piano. >It was small, sort of grand piano shaped, with the long bass side going >off at an angle instead of straight back. Not impressive as an instrument >but very cool looking with her antebellum antiques. It was in a B&B in >Madison Indiana (unbelievable breakfast served there). > >Dean >Dean May cell 812.239.3359 >PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 >Terre Haute IN 47802 > I've got a couple pictures of a Chickering cocked hat at the Smithsonian (125/159k), but isn't the Mathusek earlier? Conrad Hoffsommer Early to rise: early to bed; Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.
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