Chickering

Biography

Chickering is referenced in a discussion of the development of the iron piano plate. The author states that Babcock's earlier iron frame, while significant, was not fully an anticipation of the plate Chickering introduced in 1837, which the text describes as the complete link between prefatory iron-frame attempts made before 1825 and Steinway's improved overstrung grand plate of 1859. No further biographical detail about Chickering personally is given in this passage.

Highlights

• Introduced an improved metal piano plate in 1837
• That 1837 plate is described as the complete link between the earlier iron-frame experiments before 1825 and Steinway's improved overstrung grand plate of 1859

Source

Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 123.

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