[Kevin Harding]

I have just purchased an upright piano made by Phillip Cambridge. I cannot find any information on him on the usual web sites, can any one help?

[Bill Kibby]

Most piano names are not listed on the internet. Would I be right in thinking you meant PHILIPS, CAMBRIDGE & Co.? They were not listed among the Pianoforte Makers in the Post Office London Directory 1880.
Circa 1890 Philips, Cambridge & Co, London upright piano has the number 2116. Sticker action. Wooden top bridge. One-panel top door, half-top, vcarvings, trusses, overhanging music desk. Three-quarter iron frame. 60 overdampers vellum-hinged. Unbushed keys, not ivory, chasing, 7 octaves A-A, imprinted R. DEICHTON. Lock-key solid type. Pedals underneath, brass-capped, waisted shape, celeste soft pedal. Strings vertical, full trichord. Untuneable in 1978, with many loose wrestpins under 20 inchpounds, a whole tone below pitch. Wrestpins square.
1892 Not listed among the Pianoforte Makers in my Post Office London Directory.
1894 Not listed in Kelly’s Directory.
1899 Not listed in Kelly’s Directory.
Circa 1905 Philips, Cambridge & Co, London upright piano has the number 2268. Action type SLHW. Wooden top bridge. One-panel top door, marquetry, sconces, trusses. 60 London-style overdampers. Three-quarter iron frame. Unbushed keys, not ivory, 7 octaves A-A, pilot screws. Imprinted ADAMSON. Lock-key solid type. Pedals underneath, brass-capped, celeste soft pedal. Stribngs vertical, full trichord. Wrestpins square,, black, rusty 1984, still tuneable.
1911 Not listed as bona fide makers by Alfred Dolge “Pianos and their makers”. See
http://www.uk-piano.org/piano-gen/piano-names-aliases.html
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