Cumberland Upright

[marsippius]

Recently I purchased a Cumberland upright with serial number
208218.  It appears to be in reasonably good shape on the inside.  The only
information I have on it is that it may have been made during the
1940's.  Does anyone have any further information about the Cumberland
piano? Thanks.
m

[marsippius]

The Cumberland is a product of Starr Piano Company, formerly of Richmond
Indiana.  Other brand names include Currier and Starr.
greeting.

[marsippius]

The piano book shows this particular piano to have been manufactured in 1931.
It has been tuned to itself.  Meaning, it had not been tuned in quite
some number of years, and so, it was flat and out of tune.  So the technician
tuned it and now it shows A=414.  This will have to be acceptable for the time
being.

The dampers are wore out and need to be replaced.

Starr Manufacturing Company was one of the largest piano manufacturing
companies in existence at the time.  At one time, it had 4 lines.  It is compared
to today's General Motors Corporation.

It made player pianos also.  This one that I now have is one such player
piano, but it has the automatic machinery removed.

Years ago, pianos and other musical instruments were tuned to A=432.
But with the advent of radio, this was eventually changed to A=440.

Also, some of the tuning pins are looser than some of the others -- but the
whole thing can be repaired for a measly sum.

This information answers the original question in the first posting of this thread.

It is still possible to play piano along with computer playback, by adjusting
the output pitch by a factor of -5.909%.

Greeting.