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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.

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Klemm-Babcock Square  ca. 1830s

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Alpheus Babcock, American inventor of the cast iron plate, built pianos for Klemm in Philadelphia after Jonas Chickering took over his previous employer.  Later Babcock was hired by Chickering, with epic results for American piano building.

Babcock-Klemm 1a
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Babcock provided a coloristic device to permit non-speaking length strings - deliberately long - to sympathetically vibrate.

Babcock-Klemm 11b
Broadwood Square 8
Chickering Cocked Hat 22199 3 compr doc