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	HISTORY OF CHICKERING PIANOS
		Until the year 1852, Jonas Chickering superintended each department of his business with his usual scrupulous care but was relieved of much of this responsibility upon his taking into partnership his three sons, all of whom had received under their father a practical training of the highest order.
		The genius of C. Frank Chickering as a "scale" draftsman soon became internationally know and acknowledged and to his extensive scientific research is to be attributed much of the renowned beauty of the Chickering tone.
		The significance and historic value of the Chickering in the development of the pianoforte in America are seen in the preservation at the Ford Museum at Dearborn of several important Chickering including the very first instrument made by Jonas Chickering in 1823.
	www.keyboardcentre.com /HistoryofChickeringPianos.htm (800 words)

	Jonas Chickering
		CHICKERING, Jonas, piano-manufacturer, born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, 5 April, 1797; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 8 December, 1853.
		He was the son of a flsmith, and, after receiving a common-school education, learned the trade of cabinet-making.
		Chickering greatly improved this frame, including in it the pin-bridge and damper socket rail.
	www.famousamericans.net /jonaschickering (435 words)

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		Chickering and Sons celebrated in 1923 the completion of a century of continuous manufacture of the Chickering pianos.
		Not only were many patents taken out by Jonas Chickering, his sons and their successors, but various methods exclusive to themselves have also been employed, and there are in constant use operations of an abstract character which maybe described as mechanical subtleties which are an integral part of the Chickering system.
		Chickering and Sons have been recipients of upwards of 150 marks of distinction both in the United States and Europe, in the form of diploma, gold medals, and letters from learned bodies.
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	Piano Craft Guild - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Born in Mason, NH in 1798, Jonas Chickering became a piano maker almost by accident.
		In the late 1840's, his three sons entered into the family business, and the firm became "Chickering and Sons." Jonas Chickering continued to make technical improvements to his pianos, and received the highest awards at the first World's Fair held in London's Crystal Palace in 1851.
		The original Chickering piano factory on Washington Street in Boston was destroyed by fire in 1852.
	www.pianocraftguild.com /history.html (440 words)

	The World
		He was a polisher at Buttura and Sons Granite Co. in Barre, and ran a rubbish removal business in the Barre area for more than 30 years.
		Chickering joined the E.I. duPont Co. in Wilmington in 1934 and retired in 1964 as national sales manager.
		Chickering served on the Woodstock selectboard and was chairman, chairman of the Capital Budget Committee, and was a member of the boards of the Woodstock Job Bank and Woodstock Historical Center, Ottauquechee Health Center, the Low Income Housing Corp. Windsor County Partners and the Brookhaven Home for Boys.
	www.vt-world.com /Archive/2001/May_23_2001/Obits.htm (2279 words)

	Piano Information and Prices
		Established in 1823, Chickering and Sons celebrated in 1923 the completion of a century of continuous manufacture of the Chickering pianos.
		The significance and historic value of the Chickering in the development of the pianoforte in America is seen in the preservation at the Ford Museum at Dearborn of several important Chickering's including the very first instrument made by Jonas Chickering in 1823.
		In 1923 Chickering and Sons were the recipients of a remarkable tribute from musicians and persons of prominence in all walks of life who united in celebrating the Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of Jonas Chickering's epoch making enterprises.
	www.playerpianos.com /evolution.htm (8208 words)

	Antique Chickering Piano Resource And Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Steinway chickering knabe mason and hamlin bechstein bosendorfer erard broadwood.
		Chickering is the oldest piano company in america, dating back to 1823.
		Chickering - the reproducing portion was supposedly restored a few years ago.
	www.piano-master.info /antique-chickering-piano.html (646 words)

	Miscellaneous Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Obituaries
		Jeske was born in Milwaukee, Wisc., Nov. 19, 1932, the son of the late Erich and Olga (Bauch) Jeske.
		She leaves a son, Stephen C. Ryder and his wife, Marguerite, of Framingham; three daughters, Lynne A. Erdody of Milford, Sharleen M. Peters of Framingham and Madelyn Peaslee of Framingham; one sister, Madelyn Glew and her husband, Robert, of Framingham; 10 grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
		Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Charles E. “Ted” and Sonja Dockham of Laconia; four daughters and sons-in-law, Ann and Karl Phelps of Laconia, Va., Virginia and Paul Sipe of Merrimack, Caroline and Donald Barney of Tellico Plains, Tenn., and Natalie and Wilfred Mathewson, of Bonsall, Calif.; 12 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.
	www.obitcentral.com /obitsearch/obits/nh/nh-hillsborough47.htm (5544 words)

	Music Trades - American Music
		Let it suffice to say here that to the Chickerings is due, besides the introduction of the iron frame into both square and grand pianos, the invention of the circular scale for square pianos, the adoption of agraffes and the development and improvement of the action.
		Jonas Chickering was one of the founders of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston and at one time was its president.
		In the year 1908 Chickering and Sons, William Knabe and Co., and the Foster-Armstrong Company, joined in a corporation with stock valued at twelve million dollars, to be known as the American Piano Company.
	www.tribalsmile.com /music/article_15.shtml (8857 words)

	The Ambassadors - PROFILES - Vol.6, Issue 2 (July 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		De Pachmann’s enthusiasm for the Chickering pianos was sufficient enough during this first USA tour that he addressed a letter handwritten in German to Messrs Chickering and Sons, dated New York, April 12, 1890.
		Chickering, who was a type of gentleman of the old school, whose sympathies were always with the artists, wrote back a most pleasant and amiable letter, in which he said that he thoroughly appreciated Mr.
		English pianos made by the John Brinsmead and Sons firm were promoted in that country as, “the premier instruments of British manufacture” in their advertisements, having won first prize at both the 1880 Sydney and 1883 Amsterdam Exhibitions.
	ambassadors.net /archives/issue14/profile3.htm (5536 words)

	AKH: Piano
		It is acoustically excellent, overstrung on a modern cast iron frame, much superior to older designs such as square pianos, but it is unmistakably antique with its 85 keys (88 was not standard in 1885) and its jointed cabinet, unlike the modern continuous-bowed style.
		Chickering was established in Boston in 1823 by Jonas Chickering.
		When Jonas Chickering died in 1853, C Frank, the middle son became head of the company, his older brother Thomas E. handled the business end, and George H., the youngest, worked various positions in the factory.
	home.austin.rr.com /akh/www/piano.htm (301 words)

	SALON (1) - Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum Budapest
		The other Chickering piano, which is in the drawing room, was specially made for Liszt, according to its Opus Nr.
		Its range is AAA-c5 and its action is the same as in the other Chickering piano, but this instrument is much larger in size/260 cm long, 150 cm wide/, and cross-strung, having 3 pedals, of which the middle one is a divided damper level for increasing the volume of the treble notes.
		After Liszt's death the two Chickering pianos were regularly used at the Academy of Music, and in 1927/28 the manufacturing company hired them for a long American concert-tour.
	www.lisztmuseum.hu /eng/salon-1.html (496 words)

	Pachmann program Cincinatti 1890 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chickering & Sons a letter, of which the following is a translation.
		The Chickering pianos are the noblest products of the piano makers' art, and respond, as no others do, to every requirement of the most exacting virtuoso; in other words, they attain the highest point of perfection, and are the model instruments of the world.
		The Chickering Piano rightfully stands alone, for on this earth it is not only unsurpassed but unequalled.
	users.bigpond.net.au /nettheim/pachmann/pach1890.htm (252 words)

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		Chickering undertakes the sole charge of his affairs--Fears of his friends--Magnitude of the business--The lawyer's question answered--The mortgages paid--Rapid success of Mr.
		Chickering's kindness to his workmen--Sets to work to re-establish his business--The new factory begun--Sudden death of Mr.
		He was well taught by Valentine Jeune in the rudiments of a plain education, and the tutor and the Protestant minister of the village together succeeded so well in his religious instruction that at the age of fourteen he was confirmed.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/1/6/15161/15161-8.txt (14155 words)

	Virtual Tour of the Treasure Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Like the hinged lid panel on the contemporary Broadwood & Son piano also displayed here, this device permits limited dynamic control; however, no serious piano music requires such a gimmick, which was more a selling point than a musical necessity.
		Unlike Broadwood's factory, which virtually mass-produced standard models, Albrecht evidently custom-made pianos to suit his customers' wishes; no two of his extant instruments are quite alike, but all reveal the fine craftsmanship and tasteful design for which he is noted.
		Built in Boston in 1909 by Chickering & Sons piano company under supervision of Arnold Dolmetsch, a pioneer in recreating historic instruments, this five-octave clavichord is unfretted; that is, each tangent strikes its own pair of strings.
	artlibrary.vassar.edu /vcl/music/text/TRvirtual.html (1385 words)

	MBSI.org : Manufacturers
		Acquired Chickering and Sons (Boston) and William Knabe and Co. (Baltimore) in 1908, J. and C. Fischer (New York City) in 1920, and the Mason and Hamlin Co. (Boston) in 1922.
		Of his 15 children, five sons and their descendants continued to build portable and then larger fairground organs under several different company names, including Gebrüder Bruder, the largest of the firms (1860s-1937); Ignaz Bruder Söhne (1860s-1918), and Wilhelm Bruder Söhne (1860s-1939).
		Romain's son Marc in Lissewege, Belgium, owns a Hooghuys organ, which he is restoring at the time this is being written.
	www.mbsi.org /manufacturers.php (5383 words)

	The Database of Recorded American Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alpheus Babcock and Jonas Chickering of Boston made improvements in the action and in the frame; the latter patented a single metal casting for the entire frame that allowed greater tension to be put on the strings, with a resulting brighter tone.
		The piano factory of Chickering and Sons in Boston was the largest of its kind in the world, and new companies began production almost every year.
		Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912, the son of an inventor.
	dlib.nyu.edu /dram/note.cgi?id=26145 (10236 words)

	The Treasure Room - The George Sherman Dickinson Music Librarys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Like the hinged lid panel on the contemporary Broadwood and Son piano also displayed here, this device permits limited dynamic control; however, no serious piano music requires such a gimmick, which was more a selling point than a musical necessity.
		Built in Boston in 1909 by Chickering and Sons piano company under supervision of Arnold Dolmetsch, a pioneer in recreating historic instruments, this five-octave clavichord is unfretted; that is, each tangent strikes its own pair of strings.
		Steinway and Sons, like Broadwood earlier in London, revolutionized piano manufacture, among other things adopting massive cast iron reinforcement that permitted the greater string tension, brilliance, and dynamic range demanded by Romantic music.
	musiclibrary.vassar.edu /TRvirtual.html (1571 words)

	Ages C
		But Chickering and Sons have never rested upon laurels won.
		This is the name given to the reproducing players' mechanism installed in the A. Chase, Emerson and Lindeman and Sons' pianos, which are controlled by the United Piano Corporation.
		The value of a Conover piano, or a Conover-Cable piano is equal to that of a Mason and Hamlin, Chickering, Knabe, and in most cases to that value of a Steinway.
	www.bluebookofpianos.com /ages/agesc.htm (7963 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made, by James D. McCabe, Jr.
		Chickering undertakes the sole charge of his affairs—Fears of his friends—Magnitude of the business—The lawyer's question answered—The mortgages paid—Rapid success of Mr.
		Chickering—His varied duties—Sharp competition—A bogus Chickering—How a Boston bank lost his custom—His independence in business—His character as a merchant—Trains his sons to succeed him in business—The result of his efforts—The present house of Chickering and Sons—Destruction of the factory—Offers of aid—Mr.
		Chickering's kindness to his workmen—Sets to work to re-establish his business—The new factory begun—Sudden death of Mr.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/15161/15161-h/15161-h.htm (10767 words)

	History of American Made Grand and Baby Grand Pianos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jonas Chickering was from Boston, Massachusettes, and was building pianos in the early 1800s.
		In 1852, the Chickering factory in Boston was destroyed by fire, prompting the building of a much larger factory, which was at that time, the second largest building in the United States.
		With its high profile brandname and its quality workmanship, Chickering became the number one competitor for the Steinway Company, especially after Chickering added a full size concert grand piano to its line of production.
	www.sweeneypiano.com /manufacturers/manu_details.asp?muID=26 (197 words)

	300 Years of Piano Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Seufert and Sons Aus der anerkannt trefflichen Fortepiano Fabrik der H. Seufert and Sohn.
		"Chickering and Sons Piano-Fortes at the Exhibitions of 1856."Boston, 1857.
		A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jonas Chickering, One of the World's Greatest Inventors, in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding by Him of the House of Chickering and Sons in 1823."New York: Cheltenham, 1924.
	www.mozartpiano.com /biblio.html (12436 words)

	Untitled
		In 1852, he brought his 3 sons into business with him, and the company became known as Chickering and Sons.
		Since pianos made the original Chickering company are of such high quality and reputation, copyright to this brand name will most likely continue to be used on pianos from various factories in the future.
		THIS piano is an ORIGINAL Chickering and Sons produced in the East Rochester, New York factory (which closed in 1982).
	www.secondhandpianos.net /page_four.htm (11337 words)

	Ages C
		Gabrilowitsch and hundreds of others of worldwide fame with an accuracy of technique and expression which is impossible to distinguish from the work of the living performer.
		The pianos in which the Cello Reproducing Medium is installed are the A. Chase, the Emerson, and the Lindeman and Sons.
		They are instruments of attractive character and are guaranteed by an industry of unquestionable responsibility.
	www.bluebookofpianos.com /agesc.htm (8395 words)

	Boston Illustrated:
		In the building adjoining is the Chickering Hall, in which some of the finest chamber concerts are given during the musical season.
		The retail trade of the Central District is chiefly transacted in that section bounded on the east by Washington Street, the greater part of the territory between Washington Street and the wharves being given up to wholesale business.
		At the corner of Federal and Milk streets once stood the stately house from which Governor Shirley was buried, in 1771, and which was afterwards the home of the able and witty Robert Treat Paine, father and son.
	www.kellscraft.com /bostonillustrated/bostonillustrated04b.html (5058 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: THOMAS GOGGAN AND BROTHERS
		The San Antonio store, called "Goggan Palace of Music," was located at Broadway and Travis in the early twentieth century, and sold radios, phonographs, records, sheet music, and string and wind instruments, as well as all manner of pianos, from uprights and grands to player and reproducing pianos.
		The piano brands sold were nationally famous: Steinway and Sons, A. Chase, Schumann, Weber, Aeolian, Duo-Art, and also "Goggan." The store used the slogan, "Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil," and was a meeting place for many music celebrities.
		By 1885 Goggan ads announce the firm as the "largest piano house in Texas" and the "oldest music house in Texas." Nevertheless, the company's history is sketchy.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/TT/xmtwc.html (1085 words)

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