Manufacturing Records
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Nickse, Hugo
label: Collection Donor
content: Johnson, Hanford
label: Collection Creator
content: Comstock, Cheney and Co.
label: Collection Creator
content: Pratt, Read and Company
label: Collection Donor
content: Steinway, Henry Ziegler
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content: Pratt, Read Corporation Records
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content: Pratt, Read Corporation Records / Series 2: Comstock, Cheney and Company
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0320, Subseries 2.10
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The MANUFACTURING RECORDS, 1874-1936, document both the materials needed for keyboard production and that production.  The ivory purchase journal, for example, provides information on the date, source, number of tusks, weight, price per pound, and total price paid for ivory, 1916-1936.  The register of lumber received provides similar information on the many types of wood used in the period 1926- 1936.  The piano and keyboard component order book is an alphabetical listing of parts  such as locks, pins, and hinges  ordered from various supply houses.  Production figures are provided by the sharp production record book, 1874 1880, and the key production record book, 1916-1930.  These records also include several schematic drawings of piano actions and information on the damp proofing of actions.