<div>Dale</div> <div> </div> <div>Chickering Bros. piano were not made by the same company that was part of Jonas' family. According to the Atlas, Chickering Bros was started in Chicago in 1892 by Clifford Chickering, who was the son of Josiah Chickering, who was only related to the Boston Chickering. (Not sure of the relationship). <br> <br> I rebuilt a Chickering Bros grand once, and it wasn't pretty. There were no agraffs, and the action was a mess. (I don't remember if I had to deal with the kind of wippens Paul showed). It was owned by a church, who thought they bought a real Chickering. To make things worst, the piano was "rebuilt" by some yahoo who had no clue what he was doing. I basically had to start from scratch. But that's another story. <br> <br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<br> Piano Tuner/Technician<br> Honolulu, HI<br> Author of <br> The Business of Piano Tuning<br> available from Potter Press<br> www.pianotuning.com</div> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Erwinspiano@aol.com<br> To: pianotech@ptg.org<br> Sent: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 2:35 pm<br> Subject: Re: Can you figure out what this does?<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_2_1d204736-beab-433c-acaa-ed77c312fb0e><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <div> <div><STRONG><EM>  Paul</EM></STRONG></div> <div><STRONG><EM>  Simply fascinating what Mr Jonas & company could come up with.  I don't think they got much sleep. Bunch a obsessive compulsives. </EM></STRONG></div> <div><STRONG><EM>  Dale</EM></STRONG></div> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Below, and attached, is a picture of a whippen from a Chickering Bros (ugh) grand. It's the kind with a soft pedal mechanism that raises the hammer rest rail closer to the strings to reduce blow distance.<br> <br> Familiar to anyone?<br> <br> </FONT> <div class=envelope style="FLOAT: none" align=left><A title=http://pictures.aol.com/ap/singleImage.do?pid=7370W1-Gle93mhu4bKy8IxrNRBqO-0xPKLGEv4xQp5Fd3Ig= style="DISPLAY: block; WIDTH: 285px; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://pictures.aol.com/ap/singleImage.do?pid=7370W1-Gle93mhu4bKy8IxrNRBqO-0xPKLGEv4xQp5Fd3Ig%3D" target=_blank><IMG class=AOLInlineImage id=AOLP999288 title=http://pictures.aol.com/ap/singleImage.do?pid=7370W1-Gle93mhu4bKy8IxrNRBqO-0xPKLGEv4xQp5Fd3Ig= style="BORDER-RIGHT: rgb(0,102,204) 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: rgb(0,102,204) 1px solid; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 5px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,102,204) 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(0,102,204) 1px solid" height=206 alt=http://pictures.aol.com/ap/singleImage.do?pid=7370W1-Gle93mhu4bKy8IxrNRBqO-0xPKLGEv4xQp5Fd3Ig= src="http://links.pictures.aol.com/pic?id=7370W1-Gle93mhu4bKy8IxrNRBqO-0xPKLGEv4xQp5Fd3Ig=&size=m" width=275> <div class=AOLPicturesFullSizeLink style="MARGIN-TOP: -6px; FONT-SIZE: 11px; TEXT-ALIGN: right">View full size</div> </A><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> <br> Paul<br> </FONT></div> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div> <div></div> <div> </div> </FONT><br> <br> <br> <div><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> Who's never won? <A title=http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000002548 href="http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000002548" target=_blank>Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music.</A></FONT></div> </div> <div class="AOLPromoFooter"> <hr style="margin-top:10px;" /> More new features than ever. Check out the new <a href="http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/text.htm?ncid=aolcmp00050000000003" target="_blank">AOL Mail</a>!<br/> </div>