Appraisal of old Chickering (Reply)

[Phil Bondi]

At 08:00 AM 1/10/98 -0500, FRED W TREMPER wrote:
>
>Your problems are over.  Contact the Waco Wacko and have him FAX you his 
>estimate.  Since it is a Chickering grand with an ornate case, it is 
>worth, in spite of a few flaws, at least $700,000 to $800,000.
>
..Fred..don't you think this is a little low?..afterall, Chickering isn't
really Chickering any more and ornate cases are a thing of the past..it's
over 100 years old(antique factor)..it's a big piano..*they don't make 'em
like they use to*..hell..that wacko might put a price tag of 1 mil and up on
this one!!