Stieff upright

[Farrell]

I wish that one did not have termites. It didn't seem as though anything was active, but those little critters just give me the creeps. I just know one would come back from the dead after rebuilding and chew all that new wood up! I took a sledge hammer to the back frame and could not break it apart. I put a cut or two through it but got tired. That thing is a monster.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: Stieff upright


> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: May 23, 2002 5:13 AM
> Subject: Re: Stieff upright
> 
> 
> > Why restrict Knabes to late 20s? I just pulled apart an 1893 Knabe that
> was built quite like a tank - open block, full grand-like pinblock/plate
> flange and full plate flange on bottom of plate/piano. Most ribs still had
> about a 40-foot radius curve to them. Oh, and the termites loved the way it
> tasted!
> >
> > Terry Farrell
> 
> 
> 
> Terry,
> 
> A couple of years back I did some redesign work on one of these for another
> technician. At least it sounds like a similar piano. When completed it was
> compared to two other uprights of similar size in his shop -- one of them a
> conventionally rebuilt S&S upright from the same era -- there was no
> comparison. The Knabe blew everything away. Wonderfully smooth,
> well-balanced sound throughout. It's quite safe to say there is NOTHING on
> today's market that can successfully compete with this piano.
> 
> Del
>