High action leverage

Chickering pianos had excellently designed Erard and Brown style actions. Pianists often comment on how “they play themselves”, or “ played on this piano, these passages finally make sense”.  We retain and restore the original actions and their geometries. These actions have a higher leverage, and thus a slightly reduced key dip relative to modern actions.

The Chickering action’s tonal and tactile response is so intuitive and grateful to the fingers, that pianists acclimate to them very quickly; especially, as they discover all the things they can now do, that previously they either couldn’t do, or only could do with concentrated effort.

A lot of words can be shed on this experience but you need to feel it to know why these Chickering piano actions are so easy to play and control.