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Made by Faber Piano Co. RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE. FALCONE PIANO COMPANY 1982 - 1001 1985 - 1016 1988 - 1110 1991 - 1414 1983 - 1004 1986 - 1027 1989 - 1201 1992 - 1560 1984 - 1008 1987 - 1047 1990 - 1305 1993 - 1620. FARRAND PIANO CO. These pianos and player- pianos are the products of the Farrand Piano Co.
PIANO AGEClick to enlarge image(s)Ever Wonder HOW Old IS MY PIANO? Two of the most asked questions are 'how old is my piano' and 'does it need tuning'.
Here's your chance to find out the age of your piano. We need the serial number and the name of your piano. Also tell us if your piano is an upright or a grand. The name is on the front of your piano or inside. Check the spelling and send us the full name. If there are two names on your piano, please state both names and separate them with a comma. The serial number is almost always inside.Before opening the top always check all hinges on your piano's top and make sure all of them have a hinge pin, plus make sure all hinges are screwed on.
In upright pianos if a pin is missing remove the other hinge pins then remove the top. With grands you can just fold back the part of the top that is over the music rack. And of course check hinges for missing pins. NEVER open the top of any piano if hinge pins are missing. Of course if all hinge pins are in place simply lift up the top.Now look on or around the cast iron plate inside your piano for a serial number.
Some grand pianos have the number on the wood sound board under the strings. In rare cases it may be stamped on the underside. A few uprights will have the number stamped on the back of the instrument. If it is against a wall, pull it away from the wall to see the back.
Some old pianos may not have a name on or in them. In this case forget it. Without the name I can not find the age. Likewise without a serial number I can not give the answer to 'how old is my piano'. Email us if you need any help.About 95% of all pianos can be dated.
The charge for this service covers our research effort time. We cannot refund if we can not answer the question HOW OLD IS MY PIANO. We will however offer an appraisal of your piano. Please call us for the appraisal and please be aware that over the phone we can only give a ball park value.PLEASE ALLOW AT LEAST 24 HOURS BEFORE RECEIVING AN EMAIL TELLING YOU THE AGE OF YOUR PIANOPLEASE NOTE: Even though there is no shipping involved with this product, you must submitt an address in the address fields. THE ANSWER WILL BE SENT BY EMAIL.SUBMIT YOUR HOW OLD IS MY PIANO INFO BELOW. After answering how old is my piano your next question may be 'DOES IT NEED TUNING'? The answer to that is a big fat YES.
A piano must have regular tunings at least once or twice a year. Some may even need it three or four times a year.
Pianos used in concert are tuned before every performance, which in some cases means three or four times a week. I know some of you will say 'I can't hear the difference', so why bother.
The truth is music really does sound better on an in tune piano. Try to not think that you don't know the difference and just listen. Another reason for servicing it is for the sake of the instrument.
The only real maintenance your piano needs is a tuning, plus other occasional adjustments. A piano is a fine musical instrument. We should treat it as such, and give it a much needed tuning.For a piano tuning in the Memphis Tennessee area please call 901-827-3609. OLD PIANOSHow old is your piano? Twenty or thirty years old. Fifty or more? Does the age of a piano really matter? If it's brand new there will be no aging or wear.
A piano will most likely not show any wear for the first 20 years or so. Some do not begin to show aging until they are 40 or 50 years old. And many will show very little wear at 60 to 75 years old.After seventy five or eighty practically all pianos will have some wear, signs of age, or damage due to years of harsh temperature changes. A high amount of humidity is one of the worst things for your instrument, new or old.
Extremely dry conditions are also very bad. Harsh temperatures and weather combined with a lack of regular maintenance can completely ruin a piano.Now of course if all of them were tuned and regulated every year the humidity or dryness would have less of an effect. This is because if you just refuse to have it serviced and the weather also ravages it then there is nothing helping your piano's stability. This is how important regular tunings are. So another words, neglect plus harsh conditions will cause your instrument to deteriorate and eventually fall apart.So really in a way, how well you care for your piano will determine how old it is, or rather, how well your piano ages. Of course people and things all age and deteriorate.
It's known as the law of entropy. The better you take care of your instrument the longer it will last. And the better shape it will be in. So please, don't put it in the garage!At this point in time(2011) many of the old uprights and grands built before around 1930 are getting in pretty bad shape. Every once in a while I will find one older than 1930 that justs knocks me out! If you find an old piano that good, you better buy it! Sadly, nothing lasts forever.
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Contents.History 19th century Mason & Hamlin was founded in in 1854 by Henry Mason, son of, the American hymn composer and musical educator, and Emmons Hamlin, a mechanic and inventor who had worked for makers Prince & Co. In.They originally manufactured only melodeons, but in 1855 introduced the organ-harmonium or flat-topped cabinet organ.
This design placed the bellows vertically and underneath the reeds, and served as the model for the suction operated American-style. By the early 1870s they were considered the largest and most important manufacturer of reed organs, employing about 500 and producing as many as 200 instruments a week.
Mason & Hamlin supplied organs to several prominent composers, notably, whose name the company applied to their patented selective sustain mechanism for organs comparable to the sostenuto in pianos.Mason & Hamlin began manufacturing pianos in 1883. Initially they built only upright pianos featuring a patented method of tuning and maintaining string tension which they marketed as the screw stringer and intended as an improvement over the traditional system with tuning pins. In 1895, the piano department was completely reorganized by Richard W. Gertz, an independent piano designer from Germany who had created new scales for them earlier that year. Gertz was elected secretary of the company in 1903, and president in 1906, and had patented the company's Tension Resonator, a device fastened to the perimeter of the wooden structure of pianos meant to prevent their sounding boards from flattening. This was first included in their grands in 1900.
The firm advertises that it is currently used in all Mason & Hamlin pianos. 20th century By the turn of the 20th century, the Golden Age of the Piano was in full force and the most illustrious concert artists of the day aligned themselves with piano manufacturers including whose 1924 recording of his was made using a Mason & Hamlin. Composer said of Mason & Hamlin pianos, 'While preserving all the qualities of the percussion instrument, the Mason & Hamlin pianoforte also serves magnificently the composer's concept by its extensive range in dynamics, as well as quality of tone. It is not short of being a small orchestra.
In my opinion, the Mason & Hamlin is a real work of art.' , a Chicago piano manufacturing company, owned an interest in Mason & Hamlin from 1904 to 1924, when it was sold to the. Mason & Hamlin's role in this company was later described as the 'artist's' brand among the firm's premier lines which included ('family use') and ('Metropolitan Opera's favorite'). American's sales began to decline in 1928, and following its collapse in the wake of the stock market collapse in late 1929, Mason & Hamlin's trademark, inventory and equipment were sold to American's competitor for $450,000 while the factory buildings were sold off separately by the end of the following year. In 1932 it became part of Aeolian-American when the two companies merged, which consolidated the control of more than twenty brands of pianos; Mason & Hamlin, which had been at the former Hallet, Davis & Company piano factory in, was moved to a separate plant at the Aeolian-American complex in at this time. During this time the company began sponsoring the piano competition.Piano manufacturing ceased in the United States in 1942 under authority of the due to the, and Mason & Hamlin production shifted to military gliders. Ownership of Mason & Hamlin changed hands several times during the post-war era, becoming part of the Sohmer piano company in 1985.
Over the decades, the designs of the pianos were altered to the extent that they had little in common with the 'classic' Mason & Hamlin pianos of the pre-Depression era.In 1989, Seattle businessman Bernard 'Bud' Greer purchased the Sohmer company, which also held the George Steck, Knabe, and Mason & Hamlin names, technical specifications, and manufacturing equipment. He moved these to a piano factory in Haverhill, Massachusetts, which he had recently purchased from piano manufacturer —from whom he also purchased the Falcone manufacturing specifications and naming rights. He named the new enterprise the Mason & Hamlin Companies. Greer's goal was to resurrect the Mason & Hamlin pianos of the pre-Depression era by returning to the original specifications—including Gertz's scale designs—and use of materials. A few changes were made, including the use of Renner action parts and slightly longer keys.
From 1990 to 1994, approximately 600 pianos were manufactured, mostly Model A and BB grands, along with a few Model 50 uprights. Greer sold the company in 1995 to Premier Pianos, which continued production at a reduced pace until selling the company in 1996.Today In 1996, Mason & Hamlin was acquired by Burgett, Inc., which also owns PianoDisc, a maker of reproducing piano systems of the same name. Mason & Hamlin pianos are still manufactured in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and distributed throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. Mason & Hamlin is a member of, the International Music Products Association and Piano Manufacturers Association International.Each Mason & Hamlin piano includes a Tension Resonator, which is a system of steel rods under moderate tension, anchored to the wooden structure on the opposite side of the sounding board from the strings and iron frame. In grand pianos these rods fan out from one or two central hubs and are attached at intervals around the rim and to the belly rail; the model 50 upright has a rod stretched between the case sides.
The manufacturer claims that this adds strength and rigidity to the rim by locking the rim into its permanent shape and which in turn preserves the 'crown' of the soundboard. References. ^ 'Cabinet and Parlor Organs' The Great Industries of the United States J. Burr & Hyde, Hartford.
1872 pp.109-121. Samuel Atkins Eliot A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts The Cambridge Tribune, Cambridge MA 1913. P.297-298. ^ The American Reed Organ and the Harmonium The Vestal Press, New York. P.19. 'Improved Upright Pianos' The Manufacturer and Builder vol.16, no.
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12, December 1884 pp.282-283. Alfred Dolge Pianos and their Makers vol.2, Covina Publishing Company, Covina CA.
Pp.144-150. 2008-10-15 at the Mason & Hamlin website (accessed October 11, 2008). ^ 2007-06-03 at the, Mason & Hamlin Official Website, 2007. Accessed June 2, 2007. ^ Christine Merrick Ayars Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston The H. Wilson Company, New York 1937.
P.127. ^ 2010-11-22 at the case study, 1934, reproduced in the AMICA Bulletin and available from the. ^ Time Magazine August 8, 1932 (subscription required).
Time Magazine, December 30, 1929 (subscription required). ^, Grove Music Online, 2007. Accessed June 2, 2007. (subscription required). Retrieved 2012-07-09.
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