Help identifying piano please

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timski
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Help identifying piano please

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Hello
This is my first post here.
I've just bought a secondhand piano and would like to know more about it.
It has the word KEMBLE stencilled across it (very poorly I might add) but the serial number inside is K70823 which suggests it is a Kemble circa 1940. The action is a Herrberger Brooks of London.
I will try and upload some pics later.
If anyone can tell me who made this piano and roughly when I'd be very grateful!

Thanks
Tim
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Tim:

Seems to be a case of you already knowing pretty much all there is to know from the information you supplied.

Made by Kemble in 1948.

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Yeh.... Kemble need no introduction.
The 'action' would be supplied to Kemble by Brooks (they probably made the keyboard aswell) -

Kemble were then taken over by Yamaha - but regrettably they closed their factory gates recently - that is Kemble, not Yamaha. Still a good name though, depending on the condition of the piano.
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