In fact, he recorded of all of Boone’s music for an album in 2008. John Davis, New York City pianist and recording artist, has become a specialist, more specifically an expert, in the work of Blind Boone. Still visited the foundation and there he found in the original Chickering records that piano number 77400 was made for John William “Blind” Boone. The Chickering name was applied to new pianos until the mid-1990s. The Foundation for the Preservation of Chickering and Early American Keyboard Instruments is located in Richmond and contains the old records of the Chickering firm, located in Boston, which manufactured pianos from 1830 until 1908 when it became part of a succession of piano companies. “We finally found the serial number - 77400.” The numbers were there to make sure all the parts went to the same piano. We found the case number on various pieces of the instrument. Still said they took out the piano’s action, essentially the piano’s engine, “and looked it all over. Still wanted to know more about the piano and with Crockett’s help they began a search for a serial number.
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