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Estey Upright #18367
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Built in 1889, this upright has a very unusual backcheck. In most upright pianos the backcheck serves to catch the hammer on rebound so it doesn't bounce around. Here the makers decided to try to mimic the advantage that a grand has over… |
Everett Upright #6496
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An early Everett upright. We have the original Everett factory guest book in which a visitor by the name of Karl Fink signs in nearly every week. It appears he was from the Dolge factory and indeed the legs on this piano seems to be… |
Gabler Upright #14346
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This one was built in 1879 and like many of the earlier uprights, made of rosewood. Gabler actions had a very heavy frame made of cast iron, so even just removing the action for some repairs is a bit of a workout. |
Gilbert (Lemuel) Cottage Upright #4637
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Lemuel and Timothy Gilbert were early Boston makers. At times they worked together and at other times, each on their own. This cottage piano was built in the 1850s. It has a very small amount of iron reinforcement for the string tension but… |
Guild Upright #25278
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This piano has a set of fine tuners very much like a violin, as well as conventional tuning pins for the 'coarse' tuning. A special tuning hammer comes supplied in the piano. In addition to the unusual tuning system, the bridges have metal… |
Haines Upright #27
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One of the very first pianos by this company. The front carved panel is very thick but not a very good fitting job by the factory. |
Hallet Davis & Co. Upright #20909
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Hallet Davis and Company was a large company based in Boston. Large enough in fact to have a street named after them still in the area where the factory had been located. This is an early upright of theirs. It is quite tall at around 59… |
Hallet, Davis & Co. Upright
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Instead of the usual bridge pins, these pianos had agraffes screwed into the bridges to both align the strings and set the bearing. In order to try to balance out the down bearing, the holes in the agraffes were positioned in such a way as… |
Heintzman Transposing Upright
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Very similar to the Norris & Hyde but with one note less than an octave to choose from. The indicator is on the front of the high C which is aligned with a scale attached to the key slip to show where you are. |