[pianotech] Restoring Museum Pianos

[Delwin D Fandrich]

But it was that wackoness that makes their pianos so very interesting. Which
would you rather have; the variety Chickering came up with or stagnate
design extending for the same length of time?

ddf

Delwin D Fandrich
Piano Design & Fabrication
620 South Tower Avenue
Centralia, Washington 98531 USA
del at fandrichpiano.com
ddfandrich at gmail.com
Phone  360.736.7563


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 9:07 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Restoring Museum Pianos

> As you say, old Jonas produced a lot of strange and wonderful instruments
> during his career and I've learned a lot from studying them and trying to
> figure out what he might have been thinking. He didn't make this one,
> however. Jonas died toward the end of 1854, just before his new
> steam-powered factory was completed. The piano shown in David's pictures
> would have been built by his sons (at least a couple of whom may have been
> just as wacko as the old man).

May have been is right. From a personal standpoint, faced with dealing 
with the surviving results of the crime, the identity of the perpetrator 
becomes sort of moot.

Ron N