Several Magnificent Art Case uprights for Sale. ( This time, "no kidding". )

[gordon stelter]

    I have posted this before, but now I am truly
ready to divest myself of some superb uprights that I
have kept, out of dozens acquired. My performing
career is expanding, and I'll likely never have any
time to rebuild these beautiful examples:

Three 1890's Knabes.

50" rosewood, fretwork panels with silk backing.
Excellent unrestored condition. Perfect ivories. 
Case stripped. Very elegant. Comes with a set of 
Wally Brooks' Abel Encores, in box.  $800

55" rosewood, also with astounding fretwork panels up
top, semi-professionally refinished. The
nitrocellulose lacquer  could be very easily reworked
to make it look "pro".  
    Otherwise unrestored  $1,400. 

55" "Eastlake" case. Ebony with matching mechanical
"Piano chair" with seat that rises on rack and pinion
gear. Case stripped. Top front panel missing, probably
hanging on someone' dining room wall. Design your own,
or maybe someone that I know will let you copy theirs!
 New Pianotech keytops, set of Imadegawa hammers ( I
didn't know better at the time ) still in box. 
     $600. 

Ivers and Pond, massive "flame-grain" mahogany case
with plenty of carving, cast acanthus leaf pedals and
painted white.  Big lever in left cheek-block to yank
for mandolin rail!  A little rough, but plenty
restorable.
     $300

These prices are a mere fraction of what I "have in"
these pianos, when you continue purchase price,
materials, time spent stripping the cases, etc.. 
They are all "as good as or better than Steinway"
uprights from the "Golden Age" of piano building,
1890-1915. "Rolls-Royce" quality pianos. 

I also know of a rosewood Weber upright, $500, and   a
Lindemann player with a fancy walnut case, for $300.

    And one extremely meticulously restored mahogany
player piano, "Brewster", with a "Standard" player
system and original "player" bench.  Over $1,200 was
spent just nickel-plating the hardware on this one,
and it plays by the pressure of a pinky finger on one
pedal. Abel hammers. Hand rubbed VARNISH finish 
( Pratt & Lambert # 38, the best ! ) Call for details.

    All pianos in Athens, Georgia. You pick up, or pay
me to haul, anywhere, in a rental van or my 
1938 Railway Express Agency truck.

    Thump

(770) 725-5949
      




		
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