Terry -
My personal piano is an 1893 A.B. Chase upright. Magnificently built
instrument. There are quite a few A.B. Chase's in Ohio as one of their
plants was in Norwalk, Ohio. Particularly nice bass. Original shanks
are still arrow straight, and perfectly spaced after 110 years of Ohio
weather. And 20 years of my playing...
Mark Potter
bases-loaded@juno.com
On Fri, 2 May 2003 22:19:53 -0400 "Farrell" <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.
>
> Terry Farrell
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