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Hello Bill Kibby.

Can you find for me date of manufacture of a Holling and Spangenberg with serial number 28688?

Chris Leslie

Hi Wendy Sorry for late answer but I don't check in here very often. I can add to my previous post that W.H.Paling had their "Victor" piano line manufactured to their requirements, including Paling logo on the plate, up to about 1900 by the German company Uebel & Lechleiter. Ubel seria...

Mignon pianos was marketed by the Australian music store Nicholson and Sons. As did W.H.Paling imported pianos from overseas to their specifications and renamed them "Victor", Nicholson imported and called their line "Mignon" after the grand daughter. Serial numbers are useless b...

I know a little bit about W.H.Paling & Co.Ltd., their Victor pianos, as well as Beale. My first tuning lessons were with Palings in their Sydney piano warehouse just prior to them closing in the early 1970's. The father of W.H.Paling was a piano maker in Holland and his son W.H.arrived in Austra...

The Railsback Curve only gets one mention ,which is on this topic, so I shall ask a nice juicy question about that . What is the effective relation between the Railsback Curve and the tuning system ? The equal temperament exists so ubiquitously for a technical tuning reason . On the unequal tuning ...