Bringing the Philipps Modell 3 Paganini Home

(Photograph courtesy of Ken Goldman)

The bottom portion (or furniture chassis) of the Paganini Modell 3 Geigen Piano being lifted and transported on a fork lift after offloading it from a moving van. The heavy furniture chassis is on its last leg of the journey to the Goldman music salon. The upper section of the Paganini is made to be easily removed for transport, as is the heavy keyboardless piano, which has been removed from the back of the furniture chassis to lighten the load.

(Photograph courtesy of Ken Goldman)

The heavy and somewhat unwieldy piano (with the delicate action still attached and in place) being transported by fork lift into the Goldman music salon, where it will be slipped back into and reunited with the Paganini's furniture chassis. The piano assembly is made to be easily hefted away from the back of the Paganini for tuning and action maintenance. Each of the individual piano action wippens align with the corresponding vertical sticker on the backside of the Paganini's main pneumatic stack, which are, in turn, powered by the pneumatics situated in one of three tiers (or rows), also on the backside of the main windchest.