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by Plado
23 Dec 2004, 00:02
Forum: Piano History
Topic: Gors & Kallmann
Replies: 2
Views: 6286

Thank you Bill that will do very nicely for my purposes.

Regards and Happy Christmas to you and all forum users.
Laurie
(Plado)
by Plado
22 Dec 2004, 20:41
Forum: Piano History
Topic: Gors & Kallmann
Replies: 2
Views: 6286

Gors & Kallmann

I've just stored my Pearce's piano atlas away in the loft for a month or two while we have some building work done, so I can't look up a Gors and Kallman Grand for someone a friend of mine in the USA who has acquired the piano in Israel. Can you look it up for me and give me an approx year of manufa...
by Plado
29 Nov 2004, 09:11
Forum: Piano History
Topic: Ascherberg piano
Replies: 26
Views: 37556

I do sympathize greatly with your plight on this. I feel pretty sure Bill will back me up on this. We call them overdampers here in the UK but on the other side of the pond as you say, they're known as "birdcage" actions and are rather more rare. I don't know about Canada but in the USA th...
by Plado
25 Nov 2004, 19:54
Forum: Piano History
Topic: Ascherberg piano
Replies: 26
Views: 37556

I think the Pearce's Piano Atlas states that Ascherberg pianos were supplied to someone like the Queen of Hawaii. I found an Ascherberg upright piano which had the strangest of piano-actions in that the whole of the hammer and action was permanetly attached to the key frame and the only way to remov...