Lincoln in PA

[bdornfeld]

I do not have the information about which of the Rochester Museums we got it from. I have a number of questions for a number of our members about this piano, including Paul. Paul is up there in years now and I have not seen him for a few years, which tells me he is not well enough to travel to our annual convention these days. I plan to write him with some questions, but it will take time. Everyone reading this is very used to the pace of electronic communications, but two of the members I need to talk with do not do email anymore. One I will see at our convention in Atlanta this July, but there is so much on our plates there too... I will get more info when I can. If you have other questions, I may have an answer. If you looked at The Royal Centre Record article and the PTG Foundation website, you can see the pianos look identical. The color photo of ours shows some very bright red material behind the wood of the piano, it was replaced recently as the original had completely deteriorated. When we got the piano, we knew it was the piano from Ford's Theatre and there during the assassination, but did not know that it had belonged to Laura Keene. It is our hope that bringing this piano back into public view will be of value to historians and lovers of Lincoln.