Can you figure out what this does?

[J Patrick Draine]

Jack Greenfield's "A History of Midwestern Piano Manufacturing" has a couple
of pages on the Chickering Brothers piano company, and while not effusive in
their praises, has some positive words about them. I did have a customer a
number of years ago who was quite enthusiastic about their reputation
(perhaps that "Acoustigrande" on the fallboard made it seem tres exclusive),
but the specimen I was requested to appraise was in dismal condition. And
after 80 or 100 years of New England cycles of humidity extremes, many
Chickering & Sons pianos are in similar shape.
Patrick Draine

On Feb 2, 2008 7:22 PM, <paulrevenkojones at aol.com> wrote:

> Below, and attached, is a picture of a whippen from a Chickering Bros
> (ugh) grand.
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