Tekniclavier

[Edwin A. Hilbert]

Dear Barrie,
	I own one of these in my collection.  If you still need
information, please feel free to ask.
Ed Hilbert, RPT
Vermont
On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Barrie Heaton wrote:

> Dear All,
>
>  Can you help this man?
>
> Thanks
>
> Barie,
>
> ---Forward---
>
> From: William M Hoag <bhoag@locke.ccil.org>
> Subject: Practice Piano; "Tekniclavier"
>
>
> I got your e-mail address when I did  search on "Practice Piano".
>
> I help out at our local historical society on whatever needs to be done.
> Yesterday they gave me an instrument to catalog that had just been
> donated. I don't play the piano so I don't know much about them.
>
> This object looks to be early 19th c. and is a 88 key keyboard spinet
> size instrument that is mute. The hammers strike against a felt covered
> bar. There is an adjustment for "Up Click" and "Down Click" controlled
> by
> levers at each end of the keyboard plus individual key adjustments done
> by a small tool. It has a touch adjustment knob (the instruction label
> inside says to leave at 5 oz. when shipping).
>
> It was made in New York by (I failed to make a note of the name, a
> woman).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Hoag, Malvern, PA, USA
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