Jonas-Chickering

[Pianoman]

Hi Les,
There were Chickering spinets made in the 70's witch were just cheap Aeolian 
spinets.  Aeolian was doing anything that would make money.
James
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Bartlett" <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:05 AM
Subject: Jonas-Chickering


>I tuned a Jonas-Chickering piano today with a SN of about 1839, looks to be
> about 30 years old.  The name plate was plastic, obviously a knockoff. But
> there was registration to sent to Chickering and Sons, which obviously had
> not been sent in.  Did Chickering make some really cheap knockoffs of 
> their
> own?  This was a really shoddy piece of work, and I'm just nosey.
> thanks
> les bartlett
>
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