---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A customer shipped us a 1907 Chickering 121 Quarter Grand to rebuild a few months ago - he hadn't seen it, and had no information on it, as in ser#, model, condition. I don't know whether we'd given him a quote on the job at that time (like maybe, "If it's a 123, I'm not too excited about rebuilding it"). We set up the piano and gave him an estimate a few weeks ago, including "unmodernizing" the case which has new, ugly legs, lyre, and no mouldings. It had bearing in the high treble and bass, barely and nowhere else. The soundboard which has 5 ribs total looked bad with the strings on, worse with them off: a crack behind the bridge root starting at #59 at the first break on the long bridge, both bridges unglued at their ends, and the board unglued from the rim mostly along the spine but in a few other places as well. The soundboard is now out and is visibly crowned the wrong way. Ah, Chickering... Anyways, aside from learning about re-ribbing, I think it still will prove a profitable job. Clark Panaccione ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/82/6f/0e/80/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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