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Today I have estimates and recommendations for four uprights that a local church had collected over the years.  Two I recommended that they keep, one was worth offering to a local student and one was just a problem.
The problem piano was a massive Conover Cable upright with almost no intact key tops and a few needed normal adjustments (lost motion, loose screws, one missing whippen and hammer butt).
This piano had a wonderful tone and great sounding bass strings and one of the best bass/tenor breaks and string scales I have ever heard on an upright.  
It would cost close to $1000 just to bring this up to good playing condition and lots more to fully restore it, but I hate to see a piano with this sound get hauled off to a dump.

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Blaine Hebert
Duarte CA
626-795-5170
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That is an amazing piano. The economics are a bummer.

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Vincent Chambers
Apollo Piano
Chico CA
530-924-4469
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-12-2018 00:29
From: Blaine Hebert
Subject: Conover Cable Upright

Today I have estimates and recommendations for four uprights that a local church had collected over the years.  Two I recommended that they keep, one was worth offering to a local student and one was just a problem.
The problem piano was a massive Conover Cable upright with almost no intact key tops and a few needed normal adjustments (lost motion, loose screws, one missing whippen and hammer butt).
This piano had a wonderful tone and great sounding bass strings and one of the best bass/tenor breaks and string scales I have ever heard on an upright.
It would cost close to $1000 just to bring this up to good playing condition and lots more to fully restore it, but I hate to see a piano with this sound get hauled off to a dump.

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Blaine Hebert
Duarte CA
626-795-5170
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Last month I compiled my research notes into a 50 page ebook about J.Frank Conover.  Even wikipedia can't compare to the info i collected. After studying Conover in depth I'm convince he was a far superior designer than Richard Gertz, BTW those two shared notes with one another, plus Conover had control of M&H after the screwstringer debacle. 
Anyways i'm proud of the ebook. If interested it can be obtained at my website.

Conover- Man, Piano & Company - Chernobieff Piano

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Conover- Man, Piano & Company - Chernobieff Piano Research Notes Series This is my research notes on J. Frank Conover. A mighty force in piano design with a recognized world wide fame. Even today his pianos are very respected with Piano Technicians, and are regarded as some of the finest pianos America ever produced. View this on Chernobieff Piano >

http://chernobieffpiano.com/product/conover-man-piano-and-company/

-chris


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Original Message:
Sent: 09-12-2018 01:17
From: Vincent Chambers
Subject: Conover Cable Upright

That is an amazing piano. The economics are a bummer.

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Vincent Chambers
Apollo Piano
Chico CA
530-924-4469

Original Message:
Sent: 09-12-2018 00:29
From: Blaine Hebert
Subject: Conover Cable Upright

Today I have estimates and recommendations for four uprights that a local church had collected over the years.  Two I recommended that they keep, one was worth offering to a local student and one was just a problem.
The problem piano was a massive Conover Cable upright with almost no intact key tops and a few needed normal adjustments (lost motion, loose screws, one missing whippen and hammer butt).
This piano had a wonderful tone and great sounding bass strings and one of the best bass/tenor breaks and string scales I have ever heard on an upright.
It would cost close to $1000 just to bring this up to good playing condition and lots more to fully restore it, but I hate to see a piano with this sound get hauled off to a dump.

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Blaine Hebert
Duarte CA
626-795-5170
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