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<br><div><div>On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:34 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif">David<br>
</font></font>Th<font color="navy" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size="2">is reminds me of an 8 ft 6 Knabe we bellied 10 years ago. similar transition bridge arrangement. It looks like early 1900 ish
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From: David Love <<a href="mailto:davidlovepianos@comcast.net">davidlovepianos@comcast.net</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br>
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Subject: [pianotech] Chickering Date<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Trying to figure out the approximate date of this Chickering. Someone has<br>
written or stenciled D5833. I understand the concert instruments had their<br>
own serial numbers (which this is) but I can find no reference to them.<br>
It's certainly not an 1843 piano as the number would otherwise suggest. Any<br>
ideas as to what the earliest date of this might be? <br>
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