• Custom designed case; color stained satin finish mahogany top and legs, contrasting with hand rubbed high polish jet black trim details, and matte solid body color. The color and subtle texture contrasts make this instrument an inviting instrument to enjoy visually. It will compliment a living room or chamber venue.
• The sound sparkles, with a tone which has little noise and plenty of sustain. Nicely balanced bass, tenor and treble registers. A comfortable sized sound which will not overwhelm a living space, and will blend beautifully when played in chamber ensembles.
• Bass and Tenor register create a fullness that one would only expect in a 6′ or larger instrument. This piano does not have the tubby tenor bass sound usually associated with small grands.
• Fast responsive touch; optimized action geometry
• Strings rescaled and optimized; allows clean transparent tunings
• New Sitka Spruce soundboard, custom rib crowned soundboard; very responsive board designed to survive New England’s tough piano climate
• New laminated and optimized bridge roots and old growth quarter sawn rock maple caps
• Ronsen/Bacon felt custom hammers, new shanks
• Completely restored repinned action, all new brass whippen flanges, and custom aluminum whippen rail
• High end mineral composite key tops, keys beautifully resized and uniformly spaced to tight tolerances
• Delignit pinblock
• Grandt bass strings

As in all my pianos, this piano’s sound has been refined in my extensive tone regulation process.

• Rare Chickering Grand with superb tonal potential. The wide tail offers plenty of soundboard area for a superb, classic, full warm Chickering bass tone.
• Chickering’s amazing warm round bass
• Elegant and tasteful Victorian carving. Carvings all in excellent condition
• Mahogany case recently refinished with open pore oil Finish. Finish is nice as is, or can be French polished to a period appropriate high gloss.
• Ivory in good condition. Original ebony sharps excellent
• Original action - fast responsive, needs restoration of felts, bushings etc

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• Mahogany
• The 123 scale Chickerings have the reputation of being one of the finest home pianos ever built. The design is both living room friendly, while offering the classic warm Chickering bass as well as very a smooth tenor/bass transition.
• As with most all Chickerings, the action is so well designed that when restored with appropriate hammers, it is fast, easy on the hands, and responsive… a real pleasure to play.
• Substantial, gracefully designed home instruments

• Ribbon Mahogany – very nice veneer
• An ideal musician’s piano

This piano is very similar to the Steinway O. Scales of the Hume and Steinway were almost identical. Some say Hume copied Steinway. However, since Steinway was very slow in coming round to home sized, non-concert hall instruments, some feel Steinway copied the Hume. In any case, the structure of the instrument is substantial. This means it will be able to produce a controlled yet varied tonal palette at a full range of volumes ppp-fff.

Jim has rescaled the piano using his proprietary hybrid wire stringing scales. This piano is an excellent instrument for any home or small concert venue. This, in combination with Jim’s soundboard design, controlled inertia WNG composite action, Ronsen Weikert hammers, and attention to treble termination efficiencies will produce an instrument which exceeds the performance of its Steinway cousin. (Stay tuned! Sound samples will be available when complete.)