Huntington
Apr. 16th, 2009 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helen99So my newly acquired piano (I still can't believe that phrase is real) is a Huntington. It's in pretty good condition, so I thought it might be some relatively unknown but recent company, still in existence. I did a search on Huntington, and found this site:
http://sheltonct.newenglandsite.com/huntington-piano.shtml
"The property that the new Shelton Senior Center sits on was once the site of the old Huntington Piano Factory. The Huntington Piano factory was initially a five story building built in 1894. It was a huge factory, and apparently owned or bought out the Huntington Piano Company. There was a fire in 1922, and it took off the top two floors. In the 1930s, it became the Boys and Girls club. Some years later, a youngster used a match to set fire to the building and it burned down."
So this piano is an antique. It had been in its previous family for possibly over a century.
http://sheltonct.newenglandsite.com/huntington-piano.shtml
"The property that the new Shelton Senior Center sits on was once the site of the old Huntington Piano Factory. The Huntington Piano factory was initially a five story building built in 1894. It was a huge factory, and apparently owned or bought out the Huntington Piano Company. There was a fire in 1922, and it took off the top two floors. In the 1930s, it became the Boys and Girls club. Some years later, a youngster used a match to set fire to the building and it burned down."
So this piano is an antique. It had been in its previous family for possibly over a century.