Mason And Risch Upright Piano Serial Number
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I too have a Mason & Risch piano, serial number 118732, made at 1902, and I believe it is a 1911 Aeolian. It is a very good piano and I paid $12,000 for it new in 1980. It is in very good condition. The keys are good and the action is good. It is also a rather large piano. I have a smaller Mason & Risch at home and it is a very good piano. It is a copy of my Aeolian piano and it is in excellent condition. I purchased it in 1980 for $2,500. I believe it is still worth very much more than that, but the Aeolian piano has higher value than the smaller Mason & Risch.
I have heard that the Mason & Risch pianos were considered good quality and great value. I don't know if they are still built like this, but I think they were. I know that Aeolian was very influential in terms of the development of the piano, and I heard that they made the best upright pianos. Some of the best pianos in the world were Aeolian (e.g., the Aeolian Pianos built for the Russian Imperial Court).
Mason & Risch was sold to Aeolian in 1911. The company was integrated into Aeolian in 1928. By the 1930's, Mason & Risch was not built much more, and by the 1950's, it was not built at all. In the 1960's, Mason & Risch was bought back by Aeolian, but did not have much influence over the company. Aeolian bought out Mason & Risch in the 1970's.
Serial numbers also tell you which factory a piano was made in by looking at the manufacturing code for that particular manufacturer. For example, the name Dunlop is stamped on the frame of a Dunlop piano, so if the serial number is 0040A-0050A, then it was made in the Cincinnati factory by Dunlop.
I have taken this text from the Piano Atlas , a book that is now in hardcover format. The text is in PDF format , and is provided here for easy viewing with a download manager.
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