[pianotech] help for identification

Pierre Pouliot ppk2 at globetrotter.net
Wed Oct 21 21:09:53 MDT 2009


This one is old.  I can read on a sticker 12 october 18??.  The Action is by Schwander.  Bridle straps are leather.  The plastic keytops were ruined by the amateur who striped the piano.  But they are too short anyway. Keytops needs to be at least 6,5 inches to reach the nameboard felt.  
 
 
Serial number is 441
 
Can someone help identify this piano?
 
 
Until 1998 Herrburger Brooks was the world's oldest established maker of piano actions, hammer heads, and keyboards. The company was originally founded in London in 1810 by Henry Brooks. In 1844 in Paris, Jean Schwander set up production of the famous Schwander action. This branch was later named after his son-in-law Josef Herrburger. He retired in 1882, but his name can still be found on many actions of fine pianos made today. Bechsteins, for example, were fitted with Schwander actions, up until about the time of the First World War. His successor was his son-in-law Joseph Herrburger, who formed a New York branch in 1900. Twenty years later Brooks of London and Herrburger amalgamated, so the firm of Herrburger Brooks came into being. The Paris branch of Herrburger Brooks closed in 1953 and moved to Long Eaton, Nottingham.

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