There is a blue book of piano prices for both new and used pianos. Once you have located the serial number, you can use the Piano Bluebook’s online search tool to lookup the value of your piano.
The ledger further indicates a single straight molding, carved legs, and the Brown action. To find your piano’s serial number, look for a label on the inside of the piano’s soundboard or on the back of the piano.
It too was shipped to the NYC Chickering sales rooms, leaving the Boston factory on November 19, 1870. The piano is serial number 17390 and has a compass of CCC-c5, Edwin Brown, leather and felt hammers, wound and plain steel strings with 1 or 2 strings per note, 2 pedals: una corda and damper lifter, an iron frame, straight-strung, and a rosewood veneer case. The serial number (36905 the other number is the case number) is right in the expected range. Chickering called this type of piano a “parlor grand,“ but today it has come to be known as a “cocked-hat grand” because its shape from above is like that of a cocked hat. This piano was made by Chickering & Sons in Boston, Massachusetts in 1857. The piano is serial number 27733 and has a compass of AAA-c5, Edwin Brown patented action, copper-wound and plain steel strings, 1, 2, or 3 strings per note, layers of felt hammers, 2 pedals: una corda and damper lifter, a one-piece cast-iron frame, straight-strung, and a rosewood veneer case.
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