<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I'm not mistaken, that would be = Kimball...  Janssen was sold to Conn, and Kimball was making pianos under the Conn name...  I know that Kimball made a piano called the Janssen = American, or some such.   Hope that helps.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin..</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=cedel@supernet.com href="mailto:cedel@supernet.com">Clyde = Hollinger</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 06, = 2003 8:58 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Janssen serial numbers = - help</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Friends,<BR><BR>I routinely look up the age of pianos I = service and record the info with<BR>my service records.  Yesterday I serviced  a Janssen console with<BR>serial  #305198.  = My Pierce atlas has serial numbers up to 1960<BR>(150036), then skips to 1970 = (500001), when Charles Walter purchased<BR>Janssen.<BR><BR>Can anyone tell me = where to find the age of Janssens made between 1960<BR>and 1970?  And who = made them?  The tone is pretty rotten in the = bass.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Clyde Hollinger, = RPT<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>pia= notech list info: <A = href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">http://www.ptg.org= /mailman/listinfo/pianotech</A></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>