Most upright residential pianos I've heard sound horrible. It's been a mixture of bad room placement, bad rooms, lack of tuning and sometimes just poor maintenance.

So I was amazed and delighted when we set up for today's session in Neil's living room. His Chicago made Schaff Bros. piano sounded warmer than I've come to expect of uprights. In fact, it sounds just beautiful. The room worked very well, and of course, our musician proved to be as skilled a pianist as he is a trombone player.