A B Chase Upright

[kennys@kennyguitars.com]

I have an A. B. Chase upright in my shop right now.  I think it's the most
remarkable old upright I've ever worked on.  Excellently built and in very
good shape for a piano of its age.  I didn't really want an old upright in
my shop at the time, but this fellow calls up asking who would haul a piano
to the dump.  I just didn't have the heart to let that happen.
Unfortunately, the hack had already cut off many of the treble strings.  I'd
like to rebuild this piano, but I'm left wondering how a technician can
market an old upright that doesn't have "Steinway" on the fallboard.

Colin Kenny

----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 9:19 PM
Subject: A B Chase Upright


> 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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