A B Chase Upright

[Farrell]

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
  
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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
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