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  • Messrs. Chickering's dusty garret, and then descend to one of the floors below, and listen to the round, full, brilliant singing of a Chickering grand, of the present illustrious year.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

  • Any lady who will take the trouble to mount to the fourth story of the Messrs. Chickering's piano store in the city of New

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

  • Yesterday was made famous by the purchase of a very beautiful piano of Chickering's manufacture.

    Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

  • Julian Ives, in the perfumed sanctity of Chickering's rooms, often looked lovingly at himself and his wonderful bang in the long mirror and dreamed the heroic things he would like to do and the revenges he would like to carry out, but his actual courage had been at a very low ebb ever since his humiliating experience as a member of the Eskemo dog-team driven by the cowboy, Bill Higgins.

    Frank Merriwell's Reward Burt L. Standish 1905

  • I am writing to our esteemed Director of the Royal Hungarian Academy of National Music, Franz Erkel, to have Chickering's grand pianoforte, as an excellent and kind gift from America, placed in the music-hall in the Radial-Strasse.

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • Chickering's name was such a power that one piano-maker had his name changed to Chickering by the Massachusetts legislature, and put it on his pianos; but Jonas Chickering sent a petition to the legislature, and the name was changed back.

    Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887

  • The Hungarian nightingale studies there, and only takes her hall practice here in the off season, in Chickering's empty salon.

    The Midnight Passenger : a novel Richard Savage 1874

  • And let us all remember that while these inveterate and imperishable presiders (if you please) appear on the platform every night in the year as regularly as the volunteered piano from Steinway's or Chickering's, and have bolstered up and given tone to

    The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches Mark Twain 1872

  • The first annual meeting of the New England Woman's Club, of which association THE ADVOCATE gave a report in the January number, was held in Chickering's Hall, Boston, May 29th, Mrs.C. M. Severance presiding.

    THE WOMAN'S ADVOCATE 1869

  • The first annual meeting of the New England Woman's Club, of which association THE ADVOCATE gave a report in the January number, was held in Chickering's Hall, Boston, May 29th, Mrs.C. M. Severance presiding.

    Notes. 1869

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