Interesting. Have you done much work on it? I was very surprised to hear the bright bold bass strings on the one I looked at. Now let me guess....... you've refinished it? In your opinion, how long does it take to refinish an upright (grain filled & rubbed) compared to a 5' 8" grand? Put another way let's say your fee for refinishing the grand is $4,000. How much would you charge for the upright? Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: <bases-loaded@juno.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 11:00 PM Subject: Re: A B Chase Upright > Terry - > > My personal piano is an 1893 A.B. Chase upright. Magnificently built > instrument. There are quite a few A.B. Chase's in Ohio as one of their > plants was in Norwalk, Ohio. Particularly nice bass. Original shanks > are still arrow straight, and perfectly spaced after 110 years of Ohio > weather. And 20 years of my playing... > > Mark Potter > bases-loaded@juno.com > > On Fri, 2 May 2003 22:19:53 -0400 "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> > writes: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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