In a message dated 5/02/2000 8:31:03 AM, you wrote: <<Even the folks that want to keep that old upright, rather than to buy the grand, want to do it as cheaply as possible, with the best "visual" result they can get,........................I hope that isn't a universal thing everywhere, but that's the story in my part of town. Ron N>> Ron; That is the story here in the low rent section of Florida also. I have done several comlpete 'rebuilds' on older uprights for persons who had various reasons for having it done. Each of these turned out magnificently and surprised even me as to the quality of tone and and and appearance. :-) These were high dollar 'rebuilds' comparable to a 'rebuild' on a grand. To an item each of these 'rebuilt' instruments were better than the price one could set on them for a dealers floor with expectations of selling them. With some of the new manufacture uprights, whatever the manufacture calls them, running in the 10-14 thousand dollar range it would seem to me that the time for more 'reasonable' expectations of 'rebuilding' old uprights is coming soon to an area near you.....or is that just wishful thinking? Jim Bryant (FL)
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