Chickering Quarter Grand
A rebuilt Boston grand with silent practice and recording built in. Made for students.
$45,000
What Performance-Grade Means
Designed, Not Just Restored
Most students have to choose between an acoustic piano’s touch and a digital piano’s convenience. This Chickering has both. Play it as a fully rebuilt acoustic grand, or flip on the mute rail and practice through headphones while the sensors capture every note.
Tone by Design
Touch by Design
Features
Genio Mute Rail and PNOScan III makeat this piano perfect for students! Practice early mornings and late night without disturbing anyone, and record performances and export MIDI files.
Model
Quarter Grand
Built
1905, Boston
Size
Quarter-Grand
Serial
106963
Case
Finish & Hardware
Figured mahogany veneer stripped, repaired and refinished in nitrocellulose lacquer, hand-rubbed
Fallboard decal replaced, hardware polished, underside refinished
Structure
Soundboard, Pinblock, Plate, & Strings
New Sitka spruce soundboard, custom designed from the original scale, with radius-crowned ribs
Bridges recapped in quarter-sawn maple, with down-bearing set to design spec
New quarter-sawn Hexagrip-type pinblock, full-fit to case and stretcher
Plate refinished, bronzed and hand-lettered; original agraffes refurbished
WNG adjustable perimeter plate bolt system
Rescaled and restrung with Paulello nickel-plated wire and custom Hellerbass bass strings, new tuning pins, scarlet stringing braid
Action
Keyboard & Touchweight
New sugar pine keyboard, designed for ideal touchweight and minimum friction while keeping the original strike point
Acrylic natural keytops, tapered sharps and hard maple keybuttons
New 3-piece vertical-grain hard maple balance rail, anodized aluminum keypins and new key stop rail
WNG anodized aluminum capstans and WNG backchecks
New WNG action rails, shanks and repetition levers, and new hammers
Custom geometric action balancing with strike and front weights set to design spec
Dampers
Damper System & Pedals
New custom WNG underlever system: aluminum rail and lift tray, composite underlevers, spring-loaded sostenuto tabs, modernized pitman
New guiderails; refinished damperheads with new wires and felts
Sostenuto rebushed and regulated
Trapwork refurbished with adjustable stops, new leather and felt, new adjustable pedal rods