<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content=Word.Document name=ProgId> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR> <META content="Microsoft Word 11" name=Originator><LINK href="cid:filelist.xml@01C5E078.DC84B870" rel=File-List> <STYLE>  </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US style="tab-interval: .5in" vLink=purple link=blue> <DIV> <DIV>The SERIAL NUMBER was created in 1837. The actual piano was built many years later. No other explanation is possible. And BTW, I think the Chickering people got a certain perverse pleasure out of finding creative places to hide serial numbers on their grands, especially the qtr chicks. Some I never did find.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=doepkeb@comcast.net href="mailto:doepkeb@comcast.net">Brian Doepke</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 11/03/2005 12:16:11 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Calling Super Sleuths</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV class=Section1> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I have a client whose Chickering quarter grand piano has a serial number of 2242 stamped in several places. And that’s the only number I found.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>The mystery is that the number in the Pierce Piano book lists the manufacturing date in the 1830”s….which can’t be right. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>The chickering home page also gives me a date that is too early. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The quarter grands were first made in the early 1900’s….so ….. I don’t know when it was made.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>Can ANYONE help????<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Jester size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Jester; mso-no-proof: yes">Brian P. Doepke</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><SPAN style="mso-no-proof: yes"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-no-proof: yes"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-no-proof: yes">AAA PianoWorks</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-no-proof: yes"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-no-proof: yes">260-432-2043</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-no-proof: yes"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-no-proof: yes">260-417-1298</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>