Choralcelo #2 Console and Supplementary Units
Maker
Choralcelo Company
Date1917
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Serial No.206 (or 207? - this needs to be verified ! - ASilva 11/21/2018)
DescriptionChoralcelo, dated 9 February 1917 in the opus list. Made for William V. King, Covent Station, New Jersey. Acquired in the late 1930s by Wilber and Regene Farrington and installed in a studio in New York; put into storage in 1942.Major components:
A. Console, serial number 207 (verify!), with the usual piano action acting on strings, which could also be sounded by electromagnets. Two manuals (lower, compass AAA-c5; upper, compass AA to c4); no pedalboard. Carved decoration.
B - K (see in components module descriptions)
The wooden frames supporting units B to F are not original.
ProvenanceMade for William V. King, Covent Station, New Jersey, completed on 9 February 1917. Acquired in the late 1930s by Wilber and Regene Farrington and installed in a studio in New York; put into storage in 1942.
Published ReferencesJohn 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 number11315
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