Soundboard Size Perspective

[Robin Hufford]

There was a model I saw four or five years ago, from, if memory serves
the 1890's which your description fits but I don't remember the model
designation.  Jack Wyatt probably knows this model since it has, much as
your description gives an impression of, an extremely wide tail at the
bass.  The tone was unbelievable in the bass and this while in original
condition.  There was a joint at the tail.  I would very much like to
know the model number of this kind of piano.
Regards, Robin Hufford

gordon stelter wrote:

> Sorry, I can't be more specific. All I remember is
> that they're about 6-61/2 feet long, with an ungainly
> widetail and a huge sound, very nice.( To me.) I
> thought they were from that period (1900-1910) I guess
> I'm wrong. Nicest Chickerings I've ever played,
> though!
> Perhaps that extra board area worked, in this case?
>      Gordon
>
> --- Robin Hufford <hufford1@airmail.net> wrote:
> > Gordon,
> >      What model are you talking about?   I have not
> > had the chance to
> > see any fat-tailed Chickerings from that period,
> > although quite a few
> > from just before and around the turn of the previous
> > century.
> > Regards, Robin Hufford
> >
> > gordon stelter wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone here ever restored one of those
> > fat-tailed
> > > Chickerings from, say, 1909? They're the best
> > > Chickerings ever, IMHO! What do ye think?
> > >      Thump
> > >
> > > --- Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > > > Get your spell-checker fixed: that should be
> > "Tale
> > > > of Tone"!
> > > >
> > > > Terry Farrell
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
> > > > To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > > > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 8:47 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: Soundboard Size Perspective
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >I still remember the dealer yacking about the
> > > > Boston piano with the big
> > > > > >fat tail - "more soundboard area, more sound,
> > > > bigger tone". So if that
> > > > > >were true, why don't they change the design
> > of
> > > > the Steinways? Why give
> > > > > >their grade #2 piano the better design?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Could this be along the lines of the
> > > > >
> > >mezzo-thermo-stabilized-belltone-restriculator?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Ba-humbug.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Terry Farrell
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > That would be the "Tail of Tone".
> > > > >
> > > > > Ron N
> > > > >
> > > > >
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