>Got a good laugh today. Maybe our Canadian friends can help me out here. >Tuned, etc. a 1918 Starr upright today. Top cut down. Mirror added. Starr >name not on fallboard, but rather "MirrApiano". Inside on plate, "Starr" of >course, but also a little 1950s style sticker that said: > > MirrApiano > Patent-Designate #1234 > Canadian Patent > #1234 > Further Patents Pending Old news, I know. There was a guy used to live here, last name Allen, who went by Little Angel, and made a career out of "modernizing" old uprights like this. It seems to me the name put on them was indeed Mirrapiano, Mirro-piano, or some such, and for a while they were everywhere you looked. Thirty years after the fact, I learned that this curse to the local piano service industry was the alter ego of my own 8th grade science teacher! Spooky. Ron N
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