THE PERIOD PIANO COLLECTION

 Performing - Studying - Exhibiting - Conserving

A 501(c)3 Non-Profit Corporation    email contact

        Bill Shull, RPT, M.Mus.  Founder and President

       610 Amigos Dr C,  Redlands, CA  92373  909 796-4226     PERIOD PIANO CENTER SINCE 2006                       

We seek to rediscover the art of the piano as the composer heard it on the instruments of the time;  to collect and study the instruments themselves, conserving many for history, and performing on many, so we might rediscover history’s magic.  We exhibit and curate instruments, tell the great stories of piano and society, and study the history of the piano, its technology and its builders.

Chickering 22163 at time of donation in Santa Rosa, CA

#22163 is a very early Chickering string scale design

#22163 has the early Chickering patented agraffe bridge

#22163 soundboard was once replaced with a board of modern design, more typical of the 1860s Chickering.

Below is Clark Pannacione’s submission to www.hammerfluegel.info of a Chickering with a soundboard design likely to be similar to the original #22163 board.  See also our own 8’ Chickering #20961 with an original Chickering soundboard, with soundboard grain running front to back just as below, likely identical to the original board for #22163.