9 Foot Kimball

[gordon stelter]

Nope. The 9' Chickerings were there, but the Kimball
organ ( in the ballroom, not the main auditorium
Aelian-Skinner ) had the 9' Kimball-Welte hooked up to
play from it. I'm guessing that Kimball didn't want an
Ampico product connected to their organ. I came by the
piano through circuitous serendipity 
( Luck ).
     By the way: Doug Hunt, international expert and
curator for organs at the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine in N.Y., said, when asked by me, that this
Kimball was the best-made  organ he had ever seen.
Held up far better to the sea-breezes, than the A-S.
     Ask Robin Hufford, if you have more questions. He
got one of the Chickerings, and was "instrumental" in
returning the Kimball to N.J..
     Thump


--- Pianoman <pianoman at accessus.net> wrote:

> I have been under the impression that the Atlantic
> City organ had 2- 9'
> Chickerings originally.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp at yahoo.com>
> To: "Dave Davis" <dave at davispiano.com>; "Pianotech
> List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:10 PM
> Subject: Re: 9 Foot Kimball
> 
> 
> >2 years ago I sold the 9-foot Kimbal-Welte
> reproducing
> > piano back to the Atlantic City Convention Center
> that
> > was originally installed to play manually, from
> the
> > organ keyboard, or from Welte rolls. It was a
> > reasonably good sounding piano, built in 1928, and
> had
> > a curved keyboard ( rears of keys were in an arc).
> I
> > don't remember where the serial # was, but I
> believe
> > it was on the inside of the keyslip.
> >     Thump
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Dave Davis <davistunes at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I got a call to go take a look at a 9 foot
> Kimball.
> >> The potential buyer & seller couldn't find a
> serial
> >> number, looks like the plate has been painted,
> and
> >> they looked in the *normal* spots I could think
> of
> >> over the phone...under keybed, soundboard, etc.
> >> Anyone have any other thoughts where secret
> Kimball
> >> serial numbers might be located?
> >>
> >> Also, any info on when and how many 9'ers might
> have
> >> been made? A colleague says he saw one in LA
> about
> >> 25 years ago.
> >>
> >> Dave Davis, RPT
> >
> >
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