Unusual Grand Rim

[gordon stelter]

Thanks Robin, 
     My mistake. I thought it was an earlier model.
     But I believe that the Aeolian-American merger
occurred in 1930, after Aeolian's NYC factory burnt.
Operations were merged and moved to American's
E.Rochester plant, where they continued until the
1970's.
     Thump

--- Robin Hufford <hufford1@airmail.net> wrote:
> This is the design used on the 135 Chickering from
> the factory.  The piano is probably from the
> twenties and, also probably, from the American Piano
> Co period, which ended in, I think, 1929, with a
> bankruptcy and a subsequent rescue by Aeolian.   As
> I have said before, there seems to be no other
> company that even comes close to Chickering, despite
> its various financial arrangements, which has so
> thoroughly explored some of the possibilities of
> piano design.
> Regards, Robin Hufford
> 
> Farrell wrote:
> 
> > Serviced a Chickering grand #141260 (haven't
> looked up year yet - it's old). The piano was about
> 5-1/2 feet long and had 135/24 cast into it down
> near the bass hitch pins.
> >
> > Looking from the bottom, it had a normal looking
> laminated inner rim. However, the normal inner rim
> only extended from the rim bottom to about half way
> to the underside of the soundboard. Between the top
> of the normalish rim and the bottom of the
> soundboard was a separate piece of wood (couldn't
> tell if it was laminated or what - I suppose it was
> because of the bends it goes through) that had
> numerous screws going through it and securing it to
> the outer rim. There were also dowels going in from
> the bottom of the rim assembly, through the
> normalish inner rim and presumably into the add-on
> type upper inner rim.
> >
> > What the heck is going on with that piano? Clearly
> it is original type work - does not have any hints
> of being some weird misguided add-on thing. Any
> ideas on purpose?
> >
> > I'll bet some of those Chickering folks had a
> blast trying out many new ideas on pianos!
> >
> > Terry Farrell
> >
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