Hi Everyone, My wife and I were watching the History Channel, the mini series America The Story Of Us. Did anyone here see this yet? They were saying that in 1885 roughly, that Sears who started selling pocket watches created his catelog and sold everything from sewing machines to pianos. So my wife asked me what a sears piano was like. I thought for a minute and decided to pick your brains. Did Sears contract with a manufacture to put their name on a piano as a stencil? Is this the Beckwith piano that I ran into while in Washington state, or did Sears have contracts with other piano makers the same way our piano dealers today carry several different brands of pianos. I bet this will get the ball rolling on a discussion. This program is very interesting. You can even purchase a DVD of the entire mini series. Marshall Marshall As far as I know the Beckwith pianos are the only one made for Sears, Wim -----Original Message----- From: Marshall Gisondi <pianotune05 at hotmail.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sun, May 9, 2010 5:19 pm Subject: [pianotech] something I heard on the History Channel Hi Everyone, My wife and I were watching the History Channel, the mini series America The Story Of Us. Did anyone here see this yet? They were saying that in 1885 roughly, that Sears who started selling pocket watches created his catelog and sold everything from sewing machines to pianos. So my wife asked me what a sears piano was like. I thought for a minute and decided to pick your brains. Did Sears contract with a manufacture to put their name on a piano as a stencil? Is this the Beckwith piano that I ran into while in Washington state, or did Sears have contracts with other piano makers the same way our piano dealers today carry several different brands of pianos. I bet this will get the ball rolling on a discussion. This program is very interesting. You can even purchase a DVD of the entire mini series. Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 www.phillytuner.com Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. Get busy. = = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100510/4f721412/attachment-0001.htm>
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