Stark upright

[Steve Grattan]

Patrick Greene wrote:
> 
> i was just recently working on an old "Starck and Strack" upright and the
> owner asked me how the thing was.  This piano is in excellent shape and the
> inner workings are in good shape.  The serial # is 1664-I guessed that it
> was made in 1905-1915 due to the fact that the tuning pins were set in wood
> without being also embedded in a cast iron plate.
> 
> Does anyone have one of those swell piano books that tells the age of this
> piano?  I would look it up myself, but I do not know where to get one.
> Thanks ya'll
> 
> Patrick Greene

The 10th Edition of the Pierce Piano Atlas shows the Starck & Strack as
a name used by P.A. Starck and a serial number of 1664 to be circa 1895.

Steve Grattan
lostchordclinic@ameritech.net