I have a piano with a Chickering Bros "Acoustigrande" label on the fallboard (but it actually says "Acoustigrande, Made Expressly for Chickering & Sons"). It has serial no. 4063 on the keybed, keyframe, and cheek blocks, but the plate has a fancy initials AAC circular stamp in the iron and on the tension bar it reads "Special A.A.C Tension | Equalized Scale Adopted July 1920" from one end up to the other. But someone stuck a Chickering and "Sons" label on it (the plate) and the plate has the serial number 194404 stenciled on it. This is just a cobbled rebuild, right? I was thinking it's a rebuilt Chickering Bros. Acoustigrande dressed up to look like a Chickering & Sons. But the plate should have "Acoustigrande" stamped in the iron somewhere, right? What does the AAC stand for? Aeolian? Thanks, Gary Here' are some pics that might help. I appreciate any assistance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100609/227e5c8d/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: plate-a.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 260741 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100609/227e5c8d/attachment-0003.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: plate-b.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 251400 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100609/227e5c8d/attachment-0004.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: fallboard.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 229574 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100609/227e5c8d/attachment-0005.jpg>
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