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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Story of a Medford piano. (search)
This true account will correct the statements of the writer in the July number of The Atlantic Monthly on The Piano in the United States, in which he states that the first Piano Jonas Chickering ever saw was in a battered condition, and that he put it in good repair, whereas, the one he first saw was in constant use and is a handsome instrument at the present moment, inlaid with satinwood and wreaths of colored wood surrounding the name of Christopher Ganer Londoni Fecit 1782 Broad Street Soho. On reading the above (typed copy kindly furnished us, and from which our compositor sets it) we were more at sea than ever. We were reminded of the saying of some eminent writer, Language is given us to conceal our thoughts. Evidently its first paragraph is editorially written, the remainder by the correspondent therein mentioned. But who was he? Does the word writer (in the closing paragraph) refer to James Parton, author of the Atlantic Monthly article, or to the writer of the abov