This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Chris, The case sounds like the only thing left of value except if it is = intended for exact hysterical preservation. Ever consider an organ ( keyboard ) transplant? Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Christopher Purdy=20 To: College and University Technicians=20 Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 7:32 AM Subject: [CAUT] Storytone piano update 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 --=20 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 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/79/27/c2/45/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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