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  • Old Arion Piano

    From chrisppff@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Gary Guthary on Thu Jun 14 07:54:07 2018
    On Saturday, August 28, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Gary Guthary wrote:
    Wow, You've given me more information in these last few messages than
    I've got in a lifetime of growing up with this piano!! Thanks!!! It's always interesting to know the history behind something like this.

    Getting back to the piano:
    It looks like the name on the fallboard is a stencil, not a brass inlay,
    but how can I tell for sure without ruining it? I'm afraid to clean it
    too thoroughly, and it's very dirty, so it's hard to see. The piano
    hasn't had much use, just sitting and collecting dirt at my mother's
    house. And yup, in big letters on the top right of the iron frame, it
    says: ARION New York. Also, the name on the fallboard says Arion New
    York.

    I'll have to check with my mother about when the piano came into the
    family, but my first instinct says that the 1938 date sounds about
    right.

    Max wrote:

    . . . . .

    Is there a Patent number on the piano?

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  • From J.B. Wood@21:1/5 to chrisppff@gmail.com on Fri Jun 15 06:30:03 2018
    On 06/14/2018 10:54 AM, chrisppff@gmail.com wrote:
    On Saturday, August 28, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Gary Guthary wrote:
    Wow, You've given me more information in these last few messages than
    I've got in a lifetime of growing up with this piano!! Thanks!!! It's
    always interesting to know the history behind something like this.

    Getting back to the piano:
    It looks like the name on the fallboard is a stencil, not a brass inlay,
    but how can I tell for sure without ruining it? I'm afraid to clean it
    too thoroughly, and it's very dirty, so it's hard to see. The piano
    hasn't had much use, just sitting and collecting dirt at my mother's
    house. And yup, in big letters on the top right of the iron frame, it
    says: ARION New York. Also, the name on the fallboard says Arion New
    York.

    I'll have to check with my mother about when the piano came into the
    family, but my first instinct says that the 1938 date sounds about
    right.

    Max wrote:

    . . . . .

    Is there a Patent number on the piano?


    Do you realize you're responding to a 19 year old post? (Amazing that
    Usenet news servers archive this stuff for so long.) Sincerely,


    --
    J. B. Wood e-mail: arl_123234@hotmail.com

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