<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Gregor,</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">What are considered "the best" uprights in Germany (or Europe)?</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dave Davis, RPT<BR><BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Gregor _ <karlkaputt@hotmail.com><BR>To: pianotech@ptg.org<BR>Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:44:18 AM<BR>Subject: RE: Best American uprights EVER built<BR><BR> <DIV>I didn´t see many American pianos, but I serviced a Steck upright from 1920 <BR>or so. A player piano where the player mechanism was removed. Very fine.<BR><BR>Gregor<BR><BR><BR>>From: PIANOTECHNICIAN@aol.com<BR>>Reply-To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><BR>>To: pianotech@ptg.org<BR>>Subject: Best American uprights EVER built<BR>>Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:15:10 EST<BR>><BR>>I believe, aside from the vintage Steinway uprights, the best  American<BR>>upright pianos ever built were the Baldwin Acrosonics up until, maybe,  the <BR>>1950's<BR>>or 60's (except for their bass bridges) and the Sohmer 34-96.  The Baldwin<BR>>Hamiltons through the 1960's were also fine.<BR>><BR>>Jesse Gitnik<BR>>NYC<BR>>Since 1980<BR><BR>_________________________________________________________________<BR>Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! <BR><A href="http://search.msn.com/" target=_blank>http://search.msn.com/</A></DIV></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR></DIV></div></body></html>