<![CDATA[Modartt user forum - Chickering 1908 Concert Grand]]> https://forum.modartt.com/viewtopic.php?id=6473 Sat, 06 Apr 2019 02:40:58 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Chickering 1908 Concert Grand]]> https://forum.modartt.com/viewtopic.php?pid=959729#p959729 Very much enjoyed this sjgicit, thanks - it's a piano I think sounds very familiar and inviting, as though I've heard recordings of it. Love the soundboard/ribs esp.

]]> Sat, 06 Apr 2019 02:40:58 +0000 https://forum.modartt.com/viewtopic.php?pid=959729#p959729 <![CDATA[Chickering 1908 Concert Grand]]> https://forum.modartt.com/viewtopic.php?pid=959728#p959728 For those of you interested in older pianos (or indeed nocturnes), here's a rather nice John Field nocturne played by the great (no bias here :-) ) Irish pianist  John O'Conor on a restored Chickering 1908 concert grand.  Some decent overhead views of the keyboard, but no detail on the piano itself.  Details on the process of that piano's restoration are available in the second video (unless they restored yet another 1908 Chickering).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-b4R9YcnBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebec6LY9QQk

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