Free Chickering quarter grand

[Greg Newell]

I'll let the owner know, in  a few days, that he has several interested
parties. You'd have to arrange for moving you know. Cleveland Ohio area.

Greg Newell
Greg's Piano Forté
www.gregspianoforte.com
216-226-3791 (office)
216-470-8634 (mobile)

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Alan Barnard
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:59 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: RE: Free Chickering quarter grand

Coincidently, I just returned from tuning one.

You didn't provide much info, but here are my observations. The ones I've
seen have plywood action brackets. Seem to work just fine and would be easy
to replace/duplicate if necessary.

1. They have a multi-section pinblock with some strange angles cut into it
-- difficult to replace.

2. The one I just tuned has an installed (by me) Dampp-chaser and is one of
the most stable pianos in my customer base. I don't know if that is
characteristic, more generally of the 1/4's but this one doesn't move more
than a cent or two a year. If I would dishonest, I think I could just go
through it, sweetening the unisons, and walk out the door.

3. The one's I've seen actually have surprisingly low inharmonicity and a
fairly sweet tone, but a tendency to have a very pinched tone and lousy
sustain in the 5th and 6th octaves.

If you don't want it, I would be interested; I'm not sure how popular they
would be in an urban environment, but here in the shticks, I know I could
find an interested party.

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Greg Newell" <gnewell at ameritech.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 2/3/2008 11:07:21 PM
Subject: Free Chickering quarter grand


>A customer of mine if giving his piano away. Does anyone think this is
worth
>taking?

>Greg Newell
>Greg's Piano Forté
>www.gregspianoforte.com
>216-226-3791 (office)
>216-470-8634 (mobile)