any body seen one of these?

[Greg Newell]

On Wed, 08 Jul 1998 07:02:36 PDT, Ron Koval wrote:

>
>  Hello everyone!  I'm getting ready to head out for the convention - 
>hope someone is still out there.  I won't be back for awile, so I'll get 
>replies off of the digests.
>
>A friend called me up to come look at a piano that she found. (yup, in 
>the garbage)  As she described it over the phone; short keyboard on top 
>with wires cut, pedals below on left side, I stopped her to ask if she 
>was sure this wasn't an organ.  No, she said it has 88 keys and plays 
>without plugging it in.  Intrigued, I went right over.  Found a Starck 
>spinet #185834 (1964 ish) with an organ installation.  Nice job, short 
>keyboard set into the case where the music rack normally mounts, with a 
>1" dowel set in front kindof like a wrist rest; this spins and is wired 
>in as a volume control.  Some bass pedals starting where the "soft" 
>pedal would be and extending to the left.  Amp/ guts tucked in on the 
>left wall.  I've never seen anything like this!  Was this common?  Did 
>factories do it?  Any value here?  (the piano has some string rust, one 
>broken, but in pretty good shape for being in a garage for a long time.  
>She is going to repair the legs and touch up the finish, and then call 
>me to service this thing.  She's not looking to sell, more just curious 
>about what she stumbled into.  I told her I would post it to the list 
>and get back to her.
>
>
>Thanks a bunch!
>Ron Koval
>Curie High School
>Chicago, IL
>
>______________________________________________________
>Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
>
I have 2 customers with these things.  Kind of cool!  I don't think
it's that much of a rarity though.
					Greg Newell
Greg and Mary Ellen Newell
Greg's Piano Forte`
Lakewood, Ohio 44107
gnewell@en.com