An online listings of piano serial numbers/ages can be seen at 'Bluebook of Pianos'. Barnes & Son - 31 Barthel & Duesenberg (St. Wing & Son - 1, 7.
This is the piano before work commenced.
Technical Details:
- This Rachals Upright Piano is a German Made Antique Piano.Serial No. 11744.Here's the link to see the serial number. Antique Piano Shop - Wing and Son Upright, 5 Pedal - Duration: 2:54.
- Wing & Son pianos, besides being high quality and often very decorative instruments, gained notoriety for equipping their pianos with five pedals – the two extra pedals changed the tone of the piano, one made it sound like a mandolin and the other gave the instrument a ‘rinky-tink’ sound commonly associated with a honky-tonk piano.
- Jul 21, 2017 The Wing & Son piano company was known for building high quality, lavish pianos that could only be ordered through their exclusive, mail order catalog. The five pedals on this piano.
- Established in 1868, The Wing & Son Piano Company was nothing short of marketing genius! Originally founded as Doan, Wing & Cushing, the company started out manufacturing typical square grand and upright pianos like most of their contemporaries. In 1873, Frank L. Wing incorporated the firm as Wing & Son Piano Company, New York.
Built in 1917 by Wing and Son Piano Company, New York City
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“Concert Grand” model, 59″ tall finished in french walnut
5 Pedal Wing And Son Piano
Five-Pedal Orchestral option model
Rebuilding and refinishing was started in 2014 at a relaxed pace. Wondershare photo cutter 1 0 7. A mammoth instrument, just under 5′ tall with a wide case, the sound board is an enormous area, the low bass strings very long (low A has a speaking length of 60″) and thus the sound is expansive and expressive.
The interior work of replacing pin block, re-stringing and rebuilding the action was standard and extensive, in a word, thorough.
Blue Book Of Pianos Serial Numbers
The one obvious difference in this model is the fact that it has five pedals. The far left two pedals are inventions or developments by Wing and Son Pianos, and provide unique sounds when engaged. The far left one operates a horizontal rail with “bells” that vibrate against the strings and is called the Mandolin attachment. This device is located behind the action and affects just two octaves, about the range of a real mandolin. The next one operates a rail located above the hammers, and when actuated drops tabs of cloth between the hammers and strings. This produces a guitar-like sound, so Wing claims. it can be used half-way and deliver both piano and guitar sound, or fully depressed a quiet guitar sound. The “soft pedal” feature is engaged to a certain extent in each of the four left pedals. The middle pedal advances the hammer rail to about halfway to the strings, much more than does the normal soft pedal.
Manufacturing the two effects rails, missing when acquired, was another challenge, but with the resources found on the internet this was feasible. Below are two pics gleaned from the ‘net, the left photo is the top rail, on the right is the Mandolin rail located behind the action, and unique to Wing and Son orchestral model pianos.
Here are the two pedal effects rails that I constructed:
To illustrate the effects, I have made two short recordings which can be reached below.
Mandolin pedal demo (farthest left pedal) Thumbtack 2 1.
Orchestra pedal demo (second pedal from left)
and also some music to show how all five of the pedals could be used – click here