I service a 1920 50-inch-tall Bush & Lane Upright Grand. It is an upright that truely has a reason to be called an upright grand. The top two treble sections have true capo bars as a top speaking length termination (quite a devil to get mutes in though!). Swinging the 18,000 lb. rascal out from the wall will reveal a laminated bent inner rim that the soundboard is glued to - curved and all just like a grand. Quite an instrument. I wish they wanted to rebuild it right. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Restoring old uprights > I've never seen a Bush & Lane -- what are they like? > > also I would get started but I have no money to do it > with (and no job). > > Also, my sister has a 52 1/2" 1921 Hallet & Davis that > I'd like to put new strings & hammers in sometime -- > what do you think of that make? > > --- Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com> > wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com> > > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > > Sent: August 12, 2001 8:31 AM > > Subject: Re: Restoring old uprights > > > > > > > Question -- what do you guys think of restoring > > Ricca > > > & Son pianos? I have one and i was wondering if > > you > > > guys know if it was a good brand, or a junkie or > > what > > > was it? My piano needs some action work and new > > > strings & tuning pins. I think the pinblock is > > fine > > > -- has 2/0 pins and the pins are fairy uniformly > > > slightly loose -- probably would use 4/0. I don't > > > know if the soundboard is cracked or not and the > > bass > > > bridge is somewhat cracked. > > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > At this point you would do well to actually acquire > > some hands on > > experience. It would begin to add some validity to > > your words. You've been > > talking about it for some time now, so start with > > what you have at hand and > > get on with it. (Besides, I'd be real upset if you > > chose to start out on a > > Bush & Lane....) > > > > Del > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com/
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