A B Chase Upright

Piannaman@aol.com Piannaman@aol.com
Fri, 2 May 2003 22:39:54 EDT


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Terry,

I've seen some really interesting AB Chase uprights.  They always seem to be 
well maintained, and they usually have some really interesting features.  
Right in there with M and H, Steinway, Ivers and Pond, and a very few select 
others.  You should grab it if you've got room in the shop.

Dave Stahl

In a message dated 5/2/03 7:21:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:


> In the spirit of David Love's post on a nice-sounding piano, here is 
> another. I inspected a 1912 A. B. Chase upright today ("is this piano worth 
> tuning?"). It's overall condition for this old a pianos was about 96 
> percentile (obviously not saying a whole lot). It appeared to be quite the 
> piano. It had an open pinblock with wooden top-bass string termination. It 
> had four string sections. It did not have a tenor bridge, but the long 
> bridge had absolutley NO hockey stick end. It had a vertically laminated 
> long bridge. Amazingly, it was in relatively good shape - all keys straight 
> as an arrow, clean action, robust-sounding bass - pretty amazing for a 91 
> year old gal. If I were looking for an upright to remanufacture, I would 
> snap this one up real quick.



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