Wood: Rosewood | Length: 8'2" | Serial #: 11669 | Case #: 727 | Circa: 1851 Notes: 85 | Frame: Full cast iron | Stringing: Flat/straight-strung, bichord bass (no single bass strings, all strings individually strung) | Action: Edwin Brown | Legs: Colonial | Molding: Straight, plain

One of the earliest pianos in the Collection, from Chickering's pre-numbered scale era — seven octaves, highly decorated, and fully individually strung. Acquired from Greg Bennett of the Chickering Foundation.

Wood: Rosewood | Length: 8'2" | Serial #: 26725 | Case #: 586 | Circa: 1864 Notes: 88 | Frame: Full cast iron, screw-in agraffes throughout | Stringing: Flat/straight-strung | Action: Edwin Brown | Legs: Colonial | Molding: Straight, plain

Acquired from Austin, Texas.

Wood: Rosewood | Length: 8'5" | Serial #: 33050 | Case #: 3339 | Circa: 1868 Frame: ¾ plate, agraffes throughout | Stringing: Flat/straight-strung, individually strung | Action: Edwin Brown | Legs: Cabriole | Molding: Straight, plain case

Built with five distinct scale sections: a 17-note iron-wound bass section (nine single, eight bichord strings) followed by four sections of plain wire. From Martha's Vineyard.ption text goes here

Wood: Rosewood | Length: 8'5" | Serial #: 30340 | Case #: 2457 Frame: ¾ plate/iron frame with two plate struts extending into the stretcher, agraffe bridge throughout | Stringing: Straight-strung | Action: Edwin Brown | Legs: Carved | Molding: Straight double molding, upper and lower rim

Acquired from Greg Bennett, who originally sourced it from a Brooklyn, NY townhouse.

Wood: Rosewood | Length: 8'5" | Serial #: 37405 | Case #: 2738 | Circa: 1871 Frame: ¾ plate/iron frame, agraffe bridge throughout | Stringing: Straight-strung | Action: Edwin Brown | Legs: Carved | Molding: Straight

Shipped to Chickering's New York City sales room on February 23, 1871.

Wood: Rosewood | Length: 8'5" | Serial #: 43775 | Case #: 3111 | Circa: 1874 Frame: ¾ plate/iron frame, agraffe bridge throughout | Stringing: Straight-strung, four sections (six single, six double, six triple-wound; breaks at D2/D#2, D4/D#4, D6/D#6); No. 2 tuning pins | Action: Improved Edwin Brown | Molding: Straight

Gifted by Matilda Jeung of Lynn Haven, Florida.

Wood: Rosewood | Serial #: 50065 | Case #: 1917 Frame: ¾ plate/iron frame, agraffe bridge throughout | Stringing: Over-strung | Action: Originally Edwin Brown | Legs: Carved | Molding: Straight

Wood: Brazilian rosewood | Length: 8'5" | Serial #: 51045 | Circa: 1877 Frame: ¾ plate/iron frame | Stringing: Flat/straight-strung | Action: Edwin Brown | Molding: Fancy serpentine

Wood: Mahogany | Length: 9'2" | Serial #: 76990 | Case #: 2556 | Circa: 1889 Frame: Full cast iron | Action: Improved Brown | Bass/tenor break: F#2 (highest bass note) | Molding: Straight

Sold to E. F. Searles in Waltham, Massachusetts, and later moved to Methuen Memorial Music Hall (originally named Searles Organ Hall). On June 4, 1946, this piano was played in two concerts by composer-pianist Percy Grainger, both to a packed hall.

Wood: Mahogany | Length: 9'2" | Serial #: 78560 | Case #: 2552 | Circa: 1889 Frame: Full cast iron | Action: Swiss | Bass/tenor break: F#2 (highest bass note) | Molding: Straight

Wood: Brazilian rosewood | Length: 8'7" | Serial #: 61500 or 61290 (unconfirmed) | Case #: 4225 | Legs stamped: 9878 Tail width: 37.5" | Frame: Full cast iron, agraffe bridge throughout | Action: Originally Edwin Brown (later modified) | Molding: Straight

Features Chickering's free-floating suspended soundboard, resting on dowels without touching the case; the plate sits on individually cut tubular pillars resting on countersunk metal washers in the rim. Acquired from Greg Bennett, The Chickering Foundation.

Wood: Brazilian rosewood | Length: 8'7" | Serial #: Unknown (6xxxx) | Case #: 1908 | Legs stamped: 2288, 1116, 1968 Tail width: 43.5" | Frame: Full cast iron, agraffe bridge throughout | Action: Swiss (all-wood framing, flanges, and rocker attachment to wippens) | Bass/tenor break: E2/F2 (highest bass note) | Molding: Straight

Free-floating suspended soundboard construction, as above.

Wood: Rosewood | Length: 8'7" | Serial #: 66725 | Case #: 4150 Tail width: 43.5" | Frame: Full cast iron, agraffe bridge throughout | Action: Swiss | Bass/tenor break: E2/F2 (highest bass note) | Molding: Straight

Detailed music-wire schedule survives for this instrument: gauges #14–#20 across the tenor and bass sections, six tenor triple-wounds, six bass triple-wounds, six bichords, and eight singles. Free-floating suspended soundboard construction.

Wood: Brazilian rosewood | Length: 8'7" | Serial #: 67815 | Case #: 3145 Tail width: 43.5" | Frame: Full cast iron, agraffe bridge throughout | Action: Swiss | Bass/tenor break: E2/F2 (highest bass note) | Molding: Straight

Free-floating suspended soundboard construction. Acquired from Greg Bennett, The Chickering Foundation.

Wood: Rosewood | Length: 8'7" | Serial #: 73000 | Case #: 4028 | Completed: November 10, 1886 Tail width: 43.5" | Frame: Full cast iron, agraffe bridge throughout | Action: Swiss | Bass/tenor break: E2/F2 (highest bass note) | Molding: Straight

Sent to Chickering's Boston store. Free-floating suspended soundboard construction. Numerous screw holes in the keybed and an updated plain (non-fretwork) music desk suggest this piano served for years as a Chickering-owned traveling concert instrument.

Wood: Brazilian rosewood | Length: 8'9.75" | Serial #: Unknown (7xxxx) | Case #: 5400 | Circa: 1886–1887 (estimated by leg style, matching Scales 77, 95, and 105B) Frame: Full cast iron, full plate, agraffe bridge throughout | Action: Edwin Brown | Molding: Straight

Wood: Rosewood | Length: 8'8" | Serial #: 73700 | Case #: 7116 | Built: 1886/1887 Frame: Harmonic Bar / Capo d'Astro bar in the top two treble sections | Action: Edwin Brown | Bass/tenor break: F#2 (highest bass note) | Molding: Straight

The one and only "Scale-105" ever built — believed to be the prototype for the entire Scale-105 family (105, 105-A, 105-B, 105-C, and 105-D), which became Chickering's predominant concert grand model from 1890 into the early 1900s. Excepting a believed one-off, gargantuan "Scale-125" concert grand with an Anderson plate at 9'2", the 105 family represents Chickering's last word on the classic squared-corner case before the rounded-rim models (Scales 131, 139, and 141) that followed the company's merger into the American Piano conglomerate.

Shipped from the Boston factory to Chickering Hall, New York City, on April 15, 1887. On the middle stringing pad (a piece of hardwood covered in red felt), a signature and date were found reading: "Strung by J. C. Kansur, March 1886."

Purchased at Cunningham Piano in Philadelphia in the early 1990s and fully restored to concert condition with all-new parts — soundboard, pinblocks, and new Edwin Brown action parts including newly made damper levers matching the originals.

Wood: Rosewood | Serial #: 75000 | Completed: February 2, 1888 Frame: Harmonic Bar / Capo d'Astro bar in top two treble sections | Action: Swiss, with brass capstans and brass action flanges | Molding: Straight

Shipped to C. Koffman in Leavenworth, Kansas. During a past restoration, the original legs, lyre, music desk, rim molding, and arm carvings were removed, and the piano was refinished in black lacquer.

Wood: Mahogany | Length: 8'9.25" | Serial #: 78410 | Case #: 3369 Frame: Harmonic Bar / Capo d'Astro bar in top two treble sections | Action: Swiss, with brass capstans and brass action flanges | Bass/tenor break: G#2 (highest bass note) | Molding: Straight

Shipped to Chickering & Sons, New York City, on February 18, 1890. Has a wider tail than the original Scale-105.

Wood: Mahogany | Length: 8'7" | Weight: 1,150 lbs | Serial #: 99028 | Case color: Light Rose | Veneer: Plain | Voice: Full round tone Action: Swiss | Bass/tenor break: G#2 (highest bass note) | Molding: Straight

Revised case style, with slimmer, tapered round legs and less carving on the arms. Per the Chickering serial number books, sold to D. S. Johnston Co. of Tacoma, Washington, in 1903. From Lynn Smolik.

Wood: Mahogany (rosewood-toned) | Length: 8'7" | Weight: 1,150 lbs | Serial #: 103703 | Case #: 1373 | Case color: Medium Light Rose | Veneer: Semi-Plain | Voice: Brilliant Action: Swiss | Bass/tenor break: G#2 (highest bass note) | Molding: Straight | Circa: 1904

Rented, then sold, to A. B. Loring of Pride's Crossing, Massachusetts, June 6, 1904. At one point the property of Simmons College, Boston.

Wood: Ebonized | Length: 8'7" | Weight: 1,150 lbs | Serial #: 114098 | Case #: 2957

The ninth-to-last Scale-105D made. Delivered to Eilers Music House, Tacoma, Washington, September 25, 1909.

Wood: Ebonized over plain mahogany veneer | Length: 8'7" | Weight: 1,150 lbs | Serial #: 114413 | Case #: 2959 | Voice: Brilliant | Circa: 1910 Action: Swiss, second-generation brass hammer-shank flanges | Bass/tenor break: G#2 (highest bass note) | Molding: Straight

The sixth-to-last Scale-105D made. Sold to Bass River Lodge in Beverly, Massachusetts, March 3, 1910. Revised case style with slimmer, tapered round legs. Features a true sostenuto pedal, a revised top Harmonic Bar with half-agraffes, and a nine-rib soundboard.

Wood: Mahogany | Length: 9'2" | Serial #: 110432 | Circa: 1910

From Robin Hufford, Fort Worth, Texas.

Wood: Mahogany | Length: 8'7" | Serial #: 15021 (special concert-grand serial series) | Circa: 1910

Wood: Ebonized | Length: 8'9" | Weight: 1,110 lbs | Serial #: 15230 (special concert-grand serial series) | Case #: 8219

From Ed McMorrow, Mukilteo, Washington.

Scale: Pre-Scale (unnumbered) | Wood: Rosewood | Length: ~7'2" | Serial #: Unknown Frame: Early full cast-iron frame/plate | Stringing: Flat/straight-strung | Case: Plain

One of the earliest pianos in the Collection, from Chickering's pre-numbered scale era, before the company had settled into its later scale-numbering system. A plain rosewood case with straight stringing throughout.

Scale: 19B | Wood: Rosewood | Length: 7'7" | Serial #: 50880 | Circa: 1877 Frame: ¾ plate | Case: Plain

A later 1870s semi-grand with a ¾ iron plate, in a plain rosewood case.

Scale: 94 | Style: 22 | Wood: Rosewood | Length: 7'3"–7'4.5" | Serial #: 65390 | Case #: 3229 Frame: Full cast iron, agraffe bridge throughout | Action: Originally Brown, now Swiss (rebuilt) | Completed: May 23, 1883

Sold from Chickering's Boston factory store. Originally built with a free-floating, suspended soundboard resting on dowels rather than touching the case — a design later converted to the standard glued-to-rim construction during an early-1900s Chickering rebuild, which also replaced the action with a Swiss action and brass hardware. The casework is stamped by case-maker J. A. Charlton.

Scale: 98 | Style: T (22) | Wood: Burl and book-matched walnut | Length: 7'9" | Serial #: 71720 | Case #: 5196 Frame: Full cast iron, agraffe bridge throughout | Action: Improved Brown Action

Shipped to the Chickering Hall sales floor in New York City on December 23, 1885. Distinguished by its book-matched burl walnut casework, a departure from the more common rosewood and mahogany finishes elsewhere in the Collection.

Scale: 98 | Style: T | Wood: Mahogany | Length: 7'9" | Serial #: 78230 | Case #: 3758 Frame: Full cast iron, agraffe bridge throughout | Action: Improved Brown Action | Shipped: February 10, 1890

Listed in period records as a "Grand Full," though the surviving casework is mahogany rather than the ebonized finish that description sometimes implied. Shipped to the Chickering warerooms in New York City.

Scale: 110B | Style: C | Wood: Mahogany | Length: 7'7" | Weight: 1,090 lbs | Serial #: 86125 | Case #: 2109 Action: Swiss, wood hammer-shank flanges, brass repetition flanges | Keys: Ivory

A well-documented example of the 110B model, retaining its original ivory keys and Swiss action hardware.

Scale: 110B | Style: C | Wood: Mahogany | Length: 7'7" | Weight: 1,090 lbs | Serial #: Unknown | Case #: 9741

A semi art-case variant with double legs, distinguishing it from the more standard 110B examples in the Collection.

Scale: 110B | Style: C | Wood: Mahogany | Length: 7'7" | Weight: 1,090 lbs | Serial #: Unknown

A third example of the 110B, documentation still in progress.

Scale: 119 | Wood: Mahogany (under later black finish) | Length: 7'7" | Weight: ~1,090 lbs | Serial #: 109706

The original mahogany finish survives beneath a later black overpaint.

Scale: 138 | Wood: Walnut | Length: 7'7" | Serial #: 15148 (special five-digit large-grand series) | Circa: 1916

Given in memory of Peggy Jo Sanderson by Dee Ann Beaulaurier of Walla Walla, Washington. The piano now resides in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, in the care of composer and author Jan Swafford.

Wood: Rosewood | Length: 6'8" | Serial #: 47035 | Case #: 1217 Frame: ¾ plate/cast iron frame, agraffes throughout | Stringing: Overstrung | Action: Edwin Brown | Notes: Seven octaves | Case: Plain

Acquired from Joe Bilotti, Whippany, New Jersey, June 11, 2026.

Wood: Rosewood | Length: 6'8" | Serial #: 55670 | Case #: 3127 Frame: Full plate/cast iron frame, agraffes throughout | Stringing: Overstrung | Action: Edwin Brown, brass hammer-shank flanges | Notes: Seven octaves | Case: Plain

Wood: Rosewood | Length: 6'3" | Serial #: 73580 | Case #: 7567 Frame: Full cast iron, agraffes throughout, floating soundboard system | Action: Improved Edwin Brown

Features Chickering's free-floating soundboard, resting on individually cut tubular pillars set on countersunk metal washers in the rim.

Wood: Mahogany | Length: 6'3" | Serial #: Unknown (likely 7xxxx) | Case #: 4638 Frame: Full cast iron, agraffes throughout, floating soundboard system | Action: Improved Edwin Brown

A late example of the Scale-106 — one of 612 built between September 1886 and October 1890 — with the same free-floating soundboard construction as No. 39.

Wood: Mahogany | Length: 6'3" | Serial #: 78185 | Case #: 4437 Frame: Harmonic Bar, floating soundboard system | Action: Improved Edwin Brown

From Marilyn Hopkins, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Wood: Mahogany | Length: 6'3" | Weight: 890 lbs | Serial #: Unknown Frame: Harmonic Bar

Wood: Mahogany | Length: 6'3" | Weight: 890 lbs | Serial #: 84830 Frame: Harmonic Bar

Wood: Mahogany | Length: 6'3" | Weight: 890 lbs | Serial #: 86025 Frame: Harmonic Bar | Action: Swiss

Interior is original; case has been refinished.

Wood: Rosewood | Serial #: 17832 | Completed: ~October 1856 Case: Four round corners, plain | Range: Seven octaves (C–C) | Action: English Double Action