At 01:49 11/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: >How long have the 243s / Hamiltons been made? I've played one or two >which I thought were nice sounding pianos. Were they made (Hamiltons, >not specific ones I played - I don't have the serial #) as early as, say, >the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s, ? > Stephen Airy Since the early '60s for the 243 - 743 scale, prior to that there was the 242 - can't remember offhand the scale number, but there are no wound unisons on the long bridge on the 242. before that, there was the "Hamilton" studio (since the '30s?) Conrad Hoffsommer Early to rise: early to bed; Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.
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