Old Broadwood Grand

[Susan Kline]

At 12:08 PM 11/04/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Paul writes:
> >My considered opinion is to recommend to the museum that they do NOTHING.
> >Leave it as it is. This is a legitimate historic museum piece whether it
> >was mad in 1811 or 1850.
>
>Greetings,
>     I agree 100%.    If the museum doesn't then I would tell them that a
>complete restoration, perhaps $25,000 worth,  should allow them to become a
>public venue for mid 19th century sounds. With that information, the museum
>can decide what their conservatorship is going to be.
>Regards,
>Ed Foote

I concur. Maybe, if they feel like having recitals on a piano like this, 
they could hire Stephen Birkett to make them a reproduction, and put it 
beside the original. Very interesting, I would think, for museum visitors, 
and they could play it without endangering the real one.

Susan