Stieff upright

[Susan Kline]

At 08:54 AM 5/22/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: May 22, 2002 8:43 AM
>Subject: Re: Stieff upright
>
>
> > I would be interested in a top ten/twenty list of uprights for
> > rebuilding...solid well built pianos.  Beyond the obvious:  Steinway,
>Mason
> > & Hamlin, Baldwin (other obvious ones?)...
> >
> > David I.
>
>
>You can start the list with Bush & Lane...
>
>Del

(I did -- I bought a 1906 B&L, probably weighs 750 pounds. Large backposts 
veneered on three sides with birdseye maple. I took a mirror and a 
flashlight and looked at the fourth side: clear one-piece maple. The music 
desk assembly weighs 38 pounds. Holds the house down in a gale.)

Some of my other upright favorites are Packard, early Ivers & Pond, AB 
Chase, Vose, and early Hardman; and from Canada, Nordheimer, early 
Heintzman, and Bell. Besides the obvious. Some of the old Chickerings were 
serious machines, though they sometimes have non-standard parts. Victor, 
but that's just another name for Bush & Lane.

Susan