>Friends: > >Here's a little information from "The Music Trades" magazine, September >1998, p. 80 (not a direct quote): The tiny Haddorf Piano Company showed >the first 36" spinet with a drop action at the 1935 NAMM show... > >Clyde Hollinger Unfortunately, Clyde, that information does not constitute the first spinet. It might have been Haddorf's first spinet, and likewise Winter indicates it made its first spinet in 1935. The reason I know this is because I have serviced the following: 1) Elburn Spinet, #41640, 1920 2) Acrosonic by Baldwin, #146410, 1922 (unable to verify this serial #) 3) Remington by Starr, #219316, 1933 and numerous other makers of spinets in the 30s' all with drop lifter style actions. Cable-Nelson Wurlitzer Story & Clark Gulbransen Lester Hallet-Davis My understanding of the criteria for a spinet piano is 39" or less in height from the floor and having a drop lifter style action. Does anyone have earlier than 1920 on their dBase? Keith McGavern kam544@earthlink.net Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA
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