[pianotech] Starck was Re: hazelton grand

[wimblees at aol.com]

Tom

I understand that Starck weren't the greatest of instruments, but they have a special place in my heart. 

Back in 1955, my mother's aunt, who had moved to the United States in the mid '20's, came for a visit. She wound up sponsoring my parents, sister and me to move to the Chicago area, where she got my dad a job with the Starck Piano Company. The reason he got a job at?Starck was because my aunt was the personal nurse for Mr. PA Starck. My dad started out installing dampers. Before my dad died I asked him if there was a way for me to know which pianos he had worked on, and he told me he put his initials on the damper rails.
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So when you run across a Starck spinet or console made between 1956 and 1960, take a look at the damper rail??When you?see the initials WCB, that will be a special piano. ?


On a side note. When he was working on these pianos, he would take home extra damper blocks. I eventually inherited?3 small boxes of them, and still had some left when I?sold all my tools, parts, etc. when I came to Hawaii.?

Wim

PS. Hazelton grands are very good pianos. I rebuilt one when I was still in St. Louis. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Sivak <tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 3:39 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] hazelton grand





Bernie

You're lucky your name isn't Starck.   Or Betsy Ross, for that matter.

I wouldn't go so far as to say condition doesn't matter, if I were you.  There 
may not be that many of them left, but certainly some would be better candidates 
for rebuilding than others.  

Tom Sivak

--- On Sat, 3/7/09, Bernie H <bhazelton2 at twcny.rr.com> wrote:

> From: Bernie H <bhazelton2 at twcny.rr.com>
> Subject: [pianotech] hazelton grand
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 12:59 PM
> I'm interested in finding a mid -sized hazelton grand to
> rebuild,mostly because I'm distantly related to the
> founder of the company, and, my last name happens to be
> Hazelton.  Condition doesn't matter, since I plan to go
> all the way through it.


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