Antique piano?

[Keith McGavern]

>Does anybody know anything about the Mansfeldt & Notni piano?  Lady here
>has one, upright, says it came around cape horn to the NorthWest.  The
>serial number is 9096.  Seems to be in good shape.   The plate says that it
>was manufactured in Dresden.
>
>My atlas lists a mansfeld, but nothing with this exact name.
>
>Ed
>Ed Carwithen
>Oregon

WOW!  Around the Cape Horn nonetheless.  Mentioning Dresden triggered
_Slaughter House Five_  by Kurt Vonnegut memories.

Mansfeldt & Notni is listed in the Pierce Piano Atlas, 10th Edition, page
225 as Dresden, Germany.  Est. 1867.
--
Keith A. McGavern
kam544@ionet.net
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA