---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Thanks to everyone that responded to my post. I'm sorry for the delay in getting back but the University's server was down all day yesterday. I had not realized how much I had come to depend on email until then. By the posts I've read and what I found on the web, it seems there were some very different incarnations of this piano. I was able to see the piano the other night and I though some of you might enjoy hearing about it. The serial numbers line up with Story and Clark for 1939. We were told that this piano was exhibited at the 39 world fair in Chicago so that part of the story lines up. It has a BEAUTIFUL art deco case that I can't begin to describe. I have never seen anything like it. I really wonder if it or a limited number of them were commissioned for the fair and designed by some wacky designer. Some veneer is loose but there are no bad scratches or dents. With a good cleaning/rub down and veneer repair this case would be absolutely stunning. It has a standard plate, 88 notes, and the usual one, two, and three string unisons. There is no sound board but individual pick ups for each string. If there was ever amplifiers or a turn table it's gone. (the bench is not there, some of that equipment is rumored to have lived there) The keys are a mess. At some point somebody replaced several missing ivories with plastic. Then at some other point some dork painted the key tops white. There are no organ parts as some have seen in other Storytones. Picture a spinet piano. Now take out the sound board, put pick ups behind the strings, and speakers behind the plate. At best this dude sounded like an amplified spinet (it sounds stupid without amplification, like playing an electric guitar without an amp) but the case is just a knock out. I am dying to take it apart and check it all out. If my friend buys this I will post some pictures of it. As cool as this thing is, it would need re-stringing. Since there is no board, it is useless as an acoustic piano. I wonder if the pick ups could still work. Do they deteriorate? Someone would have to fix them or replace them, replace the speakers, and then design a simple amp. It has me thinking crazy thoughts... Chris -- Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T. School of Music, Ohio University Rm. 311, Robt. Glidden Hall Athens, OH 45701 Office (740) 593-1656 Cell (740) 590-3842 fax (740) 593-1429 http://www.ohiou.edu/music ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2519 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/58/f3/5a/54/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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