Duaine, From The Piano Book (the red one): "In 1985 Wurlitzer purchased the Chickering name and all the assets of Aeolian Pianos' Memphis factory when that company went out of business. For several years Wurlitzer produced a line of Chickering consoles and studios and a 'budget' line of Jonas Chickering spinets and consoles. The Jonas Chickerings were basically no-frills, entry-level pianos with laminated maple soundboards..." My guess is that the piano you serviced today was one of these, manufactured between 1985 and 1995. Another guess is that Wurlitzer may have tried to number these in the ballpark of the Aeolian Winter serial number sequence. Aeolian-Winter-Memphis sernos only go through 1982 (~450000+) in Pierce. However, the Memphis plant closed in 1985, which may mean that the very last, undocumented serial numbers were in the high 400000's. Maybe Wurlitzer picked it up at 500000 and continued with this sequence until Baldwin came along in 1995. Cliff Lesher Winfield, PA On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote: > Today, I serviced a spinet Jonas-Chickering - s/n 511355 > > Where in the atlas do I find it's date and history? > > Thanks, Duaine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090310/d9931ae5/attachment.html>
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