A B Chase Upright

[Farrell]

Well, I wanted to remain upbeat, so I did not mention that it had been chopped down with the mirror. It is one the hack jobs done by Klutz Bros. of SC. The top was chopped and the "school model" attached legs had been saw off and replace with free-standing legs. The chop was done quite un-badly (sorry, can't use the word "nicely" here). 

As it was with the chop job, I had no interest in it. I certainly do focus on the musicality of the instrument, but gosh, ya gotta look at the darn thing.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Piannaman@aol.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: A B Chase Upright


> 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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