First spinet piano

[Dick Beaton]

Hello all....
I really enjoy reading all the fine comments, etc.
Only one thing bothers me....I'd sure like to know where the heck all of you
are located.  Can't always tell.
Best wishes,
Dick RPT Helena MT
-----Original Message-----
From: kam544@earthlink.net <kam544@earthlink.net>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Monday, November 30, 1998 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: First spinet piano


>>Friends:
>>
>>Here's a little information from "The Music Trades" magazine, September
>>1998, p. 80 (not a direct quote):  The tiny Haddorf Piano Company showed
>>the first 36" spinet with a drop action at the 1935 NAMM show...
>>
>>Clyde Hollinger
>
>Unfortunately, Clyde, that information does not constitute the first
>spinet.  It might have been Haddorf's first spinet, and likewise Winter
>indicates it made its first spinet in 1935.
>
>The reason I know this is because I have serviced the following:
>
>1) Elburn Spinet, #41640, 1920
>2) Acrosonic by Baldwin, #146410, 1922
>         (unable to verify this serial #)
>3) Remington by Starr, #219316, 1933
>
>and numerous other makers of spinets in the 30s' all with drop lifter style
>actions.
>
>Cable-Nelson
>Wurlitzer
>Story & Clark
>Gulbransen
>Lester
>Hallet-Davis
>
>My understanding of the criteria for a spinet piano is 39" or less in
>height from the floor and having a drop lifter style action.
>
>Does anyone have earlier than 1920 on their dBase?
>
>Keith McGavern
>kam544@earthlink.net
>Registered Piano Technician
>Oklahoma Chapter 731
>Piano Technicians Guild
>USA
>
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