Best American uprights EVER built

[Steve Blasyak]

Hey Now,

I have a 1900 Ivers & Pond in my garage. That makes me feel good to hear
that endorsement. I remeber playing it one time when I first got it. My
wife and daughter came home and stepped into the garage. Is that you
playing dad? We've never heard you sound so good. Naa I think its just the
piano. Any way makes me want to go out and work on it. I haven't played it
in about three years.

Steve

Orange Co. Ca.

Pura Vida


> [Original Message]
> From: gordon stelter <lclgcnp at yahoo.com>
> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Date: 2/11/2007 10:03:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Best American uprights EVER built
>
> Some American and German uprights from 1885-1915 are
> the "best ever", IMHO. Especially those with fanned
> rib patterns, laminated ribs, and plates that go right
> through the piano bottom for maximum string length.
> There is no question that the 1902 Ivers and Pond I
> got for a friend will, for example, "blow the doors
> off" a new, $25,000 Schimmel ( very good piano ) if he
> ever gets it restored. Knabes from that era are built
> like Swiss watches! There are also a lot of smaller
> companies that "came and went" in that era, probably
> because they tried to "out do" each other in quality,
> and couldn't cut a  profit. 
>     I have NEVER seen better uprights, than fine
> examples from that era, especially those from
> 1895-1905.
>      Peace,
>      G
>
>
> --- RicB <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote:
>
> > Grin... I love your specificity Jon ! 
> > 
> > Elstewize I have to say that there were really so
> > very many really good 
> > sounding / performing instruments made on both sides
> > of the pond round 
> > or just after the turn of the century its kind of
> > hard to even think 
> > about <<the best>>.  Seems like one can say that the
> > best period in 
> > piano building has past.... despite the fact that we
> > have a more full 
> > body of scientific "knowledge" about what pianos are
> > about.  The 
> > empircal knowledge base that had so very large a
> > pool to grow on has 
> > largely disappeared.... and with it a lot of seat of
> > the pants knowhow.  
> > And with out that... all the math models in the
> > world are of little use.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > RicB
> > 
> > 
> >     I would however place S&S uprights and Acrosonic
> > spinets in the same
> >     sentence.
> >     -- 
> > 
> >     Regards,
> > 
> >     Jon Page
> > 
> > 
>
>
>
>  
>
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