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T he Boston line of grand and upright pianos was introduced by Steinway & Sons in 1992. This was done to allow Steinway Dealers to sell a more complete piano line, with the Boston taking its place as a quality mid-tier instrument with Pearl River built Essex pianos placed at the entry level. Steinway serial numbers. See below for the last serial number of a piano made within a given year. 1000 – 1856 2000 – 1858 3000 – 1860 5000 – 1861 7000 – 1863. The Boston Piano Company was formed in 1991 in a collaboration between. Dates and serial numbers when the pianos were. They can be in unusual places and this page shows some of the places to find the serial number. Boston: Made in: Hamamatsu, Japan by Kawai: Made by: Kawai/Steinway: Rating (see Key) 50-65: Estimated Number In UK: 1000: Year and serial number: 1991 –. Online Piano Valuations for 1000's of Piano Brands & Models. Piano Age Calculator with Serial Number Records from the Worlds Largest Online Piano Database. Input your Serial # to determine whether the piano was made for the US market. The old Chickering piano for sale is a collector's dream instrument.

To determine the age of a Steinway piano we need to first locate the serial number.

On Steinway grand pianos the serial number can be found on the cast iron plate between the tuning pins above the keyboard.

On Steinway upright pianos the serial number can be located on top of the wrestplank above the cast iron plate when you open the lid.

Steinway Serial Numbers by Year Manufactured

Please Note: Serial numbers represent the approximate ending serial number for the year of production for New York and Hamburg pianos. Steinway Serial numbers for some early production may span more than one year.

1000 = 1856 175000 = 1916 370000 = 1961 578500 = 2006
2000 = 1858 185000 = 1917 375000 = 1962 582500 = 2007
3000 = 1860 190000 = 1918 380000 = 1963 584600 = 2008
5000 = 1861 195000 = 1919 385000 = 1964 587500 = 2009
7000 = 1863 200000 = 1920 390000 = 1965 589500 = 2010
9000 = 1864 205000 = 1921 395000 = 1966
11000 = 1865 210000 = 1922 400000 = 1967
13000 = 1866 220000 = 1923 405000 = 1968
15000 = 1867 225000 = 1924 412000 = 1969
17000 = 1868 235000 = 1925 418000 = 1970
19000 = 1869 240000 = 1926 423000 = 1971
21000 = 1870 255000 = 1927 426000 = 1972
23000 = 1871 260000 = 1928 431000 = 1973
25000 = 1872 265000 = 1929 436000 = 1974
27000 = 1873 270000 = 1930 439000 = 1975
29000 = 1874 271000 = 1931 445000 = 1976
31000 = 1875 274000 = 1932 450000 = 1977
33000 = 1876 276000 = 1933 455300 = 1978
35000 = 1877 278000 = 1934 463000 = 1979
40000 = 1878 279000 = 1935 468500 = 1980
45000 = 1881 284000 = 1936 473500 = 1981
50000 = 1883 289000 = 1937 478500 = 1982
55000 = 1886 290000 = 1938 483000 = 1983
60000 = 1887 294000 = 1939 488000 = 1984
65000 = 1889 300000 = 1940 493000 = 1985
70000 = 1891 305000 = 1941 498000 = 1986
75000 = 1893 310000 = 1942 503000 = 1987
80000 = 1894 314000 = 1943 507700 = 1988
85000 = 1896 316000 = 1944 512600 = 1989
90000 = 1898 317000 = 1945 516700 = 1990
95000 = 1900 319000 = 1946 521000 = 1991
100000 = 1901 322000 = 1947 523500 = 1992
105000 = 1902 324000 = 1948 527000 = 1993
110000 = 1904 328000 = 1949 530000 = 1994
115000 = 1905 331000 = 1950 533500 = 1995
120000 = 1906 334000 = 1951 537200 = 1996
125000 = 1907 337000 = 1952 540700 = 1997
130000 = 1908 340000 = 1953 545600 = 1998
135000 = 1909 343000 = 1954 549600 = 1999
140000 = 1910 346500 = 1955 554000 = 2000
150000 = 1911 350000 = 1956 558000 = 2001
155000 = 1912 355000 = 1957 562500 = 2002
160000 = 1913 358000 = 1958 567000 = 2003
165000 = 1914 362000 = 1959 571000 = 2004
170000 = 1915 366000 = 1960 574500 = 2005

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Chickering & Sons was an American pianomanufacturer located in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1823 by Jonas Chickering and James Stewart, but the partnership dissolved four years later. By 1830 Jonas Chickering became partners with John Mackay, manufacturing pianos as 'Chickering & Company', and later 'Chickering & Mackays' until the senior Mackay's death in 1841, and reorganized as 'Chickering & Sons' in 1853. Chickering pianos continued to be made until 1983.

History[edit]

It was P.T. Barnum who persuaded Jenny Lind - the Swedish Nightingale - to make a concert tour of the United States. After her agreement, Barnum commissioned the Chickering company to manufacture a custom grand piano for her nationwide tour, ultimately involving 93 performances. The piano was completed by August 1850; Lind arrived in September and the concert series began in Boston. Her pianist was Otto Goldschmidt, whom she married at the end of her tour.

Coincidentally, as the tour began, Henry E. Steinway (Steinweg) and his large family arrived in New York as immigrants from Germany. Henry attended the opening night of the NYC concert series but showed little interest in the diva. His profound interest was in the Chickering piano, to which he dashed for such careful examination that he nearly had to be hauled away so the concert could begin.

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On December 1, 1852, a fire destroyed Chickering's piano factory located at 336 Washington Street in Boston. One policeman was killed. The walls of the building collapsed, and set adjoining structures on fire. A new factory was built in 1853-54 at 791 Tremont Street in Boston. From 1860-1868 space in the building was the location of the Spencer Repeating Rifle Company, who made over 100,000 rifles and carbines for the U.S. Army and sportsmen from 1862-1868.^[1] This structure still stands today. It was renovated into artist studios in 1972.^[2]

Jonas Chickering made several major contributions to the development of piano technology, most notably by introducing a one-piece, cast-iron plate to support the greater string tension of larger grand pianos. He also invented a new deflection of the strings, and in 1845 the first convenient method for over stringing in square pianos. Instead of setting the strings side by side, the company introduced substituting an arrangement of the string in two banks, one over the other. This not only saved space but brought the powerful bass strings directly over the most resonant part of the sound-board, a principle used to this day in the construction of all pianos, both grands and uprights.

Chickering was the largest piano manufacturer in the United States in the middle of the 19th century, but was surpassed in the 1860s by Steinway. In 1867, Jonas's son Frank Chickering had the Imperial Cross of the Legion of Honour, then one of the world's most prestigious non-military awards, bestowed upon him by Emperor Napoleon III for services to the art of music, one of more than 200 awards the piano manufacturer garnered over the years.

The company became in 1908 part of the American Piano Company (Ampico),^[3] and continued after the merger in 1932 of American with the Aeolian Company, to form Aeolian-American. That company went out of business in 1985, and the Chickering name continued to be applied to new pianos produced by Wurlitzer and then the Baldwin Piano Company.

Chickering Halls[edit]

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The firm commissioned and operated several concert halls in Boston and New York:

• Chickering's building, Boston (c. 1850s), no.334 Washington St.^[4]
• Chickering's Hall, Boston (1860-1870), no.246 Washington St.^[5]
• Chickering Hall concert auditorium, 130 5th Avenue, New York City (1877), designed by George B. Post, and the venue for Oscar Wilde's first lecture in America in 1882 (razed) ^[6][7]
• Chickering Hall, Boston (1883-c. 1894), no.152 Tremont St., near West St.^[8]
• Chickering Hall, Boston (1901-c. 1912), Huntington Ave., corner of Massachusetts Ave.^[4]
• Chickering Hall, 27 West 57th Street, NYC (1923), designed by Cross & Cross (1924)^[9]

Images[edit]

• The Chickering factory in 1895.

• Portrait of George H. Chickering (d.1899)^[10]

• When calls the heart season 1 complete free download torrent. Antique piano at Stanley Hotel (note the 'C..e..g' in 'Chickering' aligns with the CEG chord on the piano)

• Chickering Hall, New York, no.130 5th Av.

• Chickering Hall, Boston, Huntington Ave., c. 1900s

• Chickering Monument by Thomas Ball (1872).

References[edit]

1. ^Marcot, Roy A. 'Spencer Repeating Firearms' 1995.
2. ^Chickering Piano Works Fire at CelebrateBoston.com
3. ^Grove's dictionary of music and musicians. NY: 1920
4. ^ ^abThe commemoration of the founding of the house of Chickering & Sons upon the eightieth anniversary of the event, 1823-1903. Boston: Chickering & Sons, 1904
5. ^'Closing of a Well-Known Concert Room.' Dwight's Journal of Music, v.30, no.5, May 21, 1870.
6. ^https://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/lectures-1882/january/0109-new-york.html
7. ^Source: New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age, Robert A.M. Stern (Author), Thomas Mellins (Author), David Fishman (Author)
8. ^'Americanization of piano trade in U.S. exemplified by Chickering & Sons.' The Music Trades, April 5, 1919
9. ^Miller, Tom. 'The 1924 Chickering Hall -- No. 27-29 West 57th Street'. Daytonian in Manhattan. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
10. ^George H. Chickering Dead; Last Male Survivor of the Well-Known Family of Piano-forte Makers Passes Away in Boston.' New York Times, November 18, 1899

Further reading[edit]

• Chickering & Sons. Catalog, 1883
• Chickering & Sons. Exhibit of musical instruments, Boston, 1902

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• Chickering in the grand piano-Photoarchive^{[permanent dead link]}
• Boston Public Library. Chickering Piano Factory building. Boston, South End. Photo by J.J. Hawes, 19th century
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  • Photo of Piano Factory, Tremont St., South End, Boston, 2011
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