chappell upright piano

[Bill Kibby]

In 1840, Chappell started producing their own pianos, but some have numbers which do not correspond to the published ones, quite apart from separate lines like their "Elysian" pianos, which have a coded serial number, the first two digits representing the year. See
http://www.uk-piano.org/piano-gen/reports.html

and also the Numbers page there.