Choralcelo #1 Console and Supplementary Units
Maker
Choralcelo Company
Date1915
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Serial No.156
DescriptionChoralcelo, dated 16 September 1915 in the opus list. Made for Lake Mohonk Mountain House, a resort hotel in Ulster County, upstate New York, where it was kept playing into the 1960s.Major components:
A. Console, serial number 156, with the usual upright piano action on strings, which could also be sounded by electromagnets. Two manuals (lower, compass AAA-c5; upper, compass AA to c4) and pedal (compass C to g1). Carved decoration; with matching bench. Engraved brass plate on the front:
Presented to
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Smiley
by many of their grateful
Conference Guests
September 25, 1915.
This was presumably the Lake Mohonk Conference onm International Arbitration (see www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG051-099/DG054LakeMohonk.htm), held annually from 1895 to 1916.
B - I : see descriptions in components module
Miscellaneous other parts include the flywheel adjustment board and the pitch bar board, both of which were originally attached to the motor cabinet, which was not preserved. There are also a number of panels to cover the sides of the remote units.
ProvenanceMade for Lake Mohonk Mountain House, a resort hotel in Ulster County, upstate New York. Engraved brass plate on front: "Presented to / Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Smiley / by many of their grateful / Conference Guests / September 25, 1915. This was presumably the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration (see www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG051-099/DG054LakeMohonk.htm), held annually from 1895 to 1916. The instrument was kept in playing use into the 1960s.
Published ReferencesLarson, André P., "Calendar of Events (December 2006 - January 2007)," National Music Museum Newsletter 33, No. 4 (November 2006), p 8.
John Koster, “Choralcelo, The- An Electrifying Acquisition- A Personal Odyssey,” _National Music Museum Newsletter_ 34, No. 1 (February 2007), pp. 4-5.
Credit LineGift of C. Wade Jenkins, 2006
Object number11314
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