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Chickering & Sons. Factory Location: Boston, Massachusettes Serial Number Dates: 1823 - 1988 (?) History: The Chickering piano has a long and colorful history. Jonas Chickering was from Boston, Massachusettes, and was building pianos in the early 1800s. In 1843 he patented a complete cast-iron frame for the grand piano. As a rule of thumb, if you are researching a grand piano, it will have a 5- or 6-digit serial number. The Chickering grand pianos with 4-digit serial numbers are only infrequently encountered.
Chickering and Sons is a Boston-based piano manufacturing company which is known for their award-winning pianos and music instruments of topnotch quality.
The company experienced changes in ownership and manufacturing management throughout the years although never failing to produce high quality musical instrument that the company name is best associated with.
Company History
1865 Chickering Square Grand Piano
The company was founded in 1823 by Jonas Chickering and James Stewart. However, their partnership was dissolved four years later. In 1830, Chickering became partner with John Mackay under the name Chickering and Company and later changed to Chickering and Mackays until the death of senior Mackay in 1841.
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The company was reorganized and renamed to Chickering and Sons in 1853 following the destruction of the company’s factory in December 1852 in a massive fire. The company became part of American Piano Company (Ampico) in 1908. Today, the name Chickering and Sons continues to be used as a piano brand under the Baldwin Piano Company, which bought the company’s assets and rights.
Recognition and Contribution to the Field of Piano Development Technology
The most notable contribution of Chickering and Sons piano manufacturing, to the development of piano technology, is their introduction of a one-piece cast iron plate to support the greater string tension of larger pianos.
Jonas Chickering 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 does not only save space but also brings the powerful bass strings directly over the most resonant part of the sound-board, the principle which completes to this day in the construction of all pianos, both grands and uprights.
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In 1850, Henry Steinway (Steinweg), founder of Steinway and Sons pianos, showed interest and admiration to the Chickering piano after he saw the piano used during a musical tour in Boston.
In 1867, the brand received the Imperial Cross of the Legion of Honor, one of the world's most prestigious non-military awards, given by Emperor Napoleon III for services to the art of music. The honor was only one of more than 200 awards Chickering has received over the years.
Locate the age of your Chickering and Sons Piano within the chart found below:
1824 - 100
1825 - 316
1830 - 716
1835 - 1980
1840 - 4235
1845 - 6490
1850 - 10000
1855 - 15400
1860 - 22000
1865 - 27000
1870 - 35500
1875 - 46000
1880 - 55500
1885 - 70000
1890 - 78500
1895 - 85000
1900 - 93000
1905 - 105000
1910 - 115000
1915 - 124000
1920 - 132500
1925 - 139700
1930 - 148400
1935 - 155200
1940 - 167200
1947 - 187000
1950 - 195000
1955 - 204000
1960 - 212750
1965 - 221117
1970 - 230300
1975 - 237578
1981 - 247477
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