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when the strings were removed. So, in search of information, we went to the Chickerings. We were there shown an excellent photograph of a Christopher Ganer piano (cover raised showing interior), such as this must have originally been, with six legs and one pedal. Endorsed on its back was this legend:— First Piano-forte ever seen by Jonas Chickering, once the property of Princess Amelia, daughter of George III., now owned by Miss Ellen Day Hale, daughter of Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Feb., 1916. We began to think of the tomb of Columbus, and to wonder, What next? The next was, that we were also there furnished with the following, from the editorial page of the Boston Evening Transcript of August 30, 1867:— An Historical piano. We are indebted to a correspondent for the following account of an Organized Piano, being the first Pianoforte which the late Mr. Jonas Chickering ever saw, which is now in the possession of Mrs. Samuel Batchelder of Old Cambridge. This ins