just like a ringing them bells

[Robert Goodale]

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Wow, cool piano!  Too bad it is in such bad shape.  In
general I would recommend burning such a piano, however the
bell feature tells me that this is a very rare bird and
should have some significant collector value, easily
justifying a complete and proper restoration.

I am not familiar with the brand, it sounds pretty obscure.
It does sound a lot like a "Wing & Son" however.  Wing used
to have a lot of "noise maker" features and the pianos
themselves were of excellent quality.  Most Wings had
several extra pedals to activate/engage the other
mechanisms.  I've come across only two of them, one that was
abused and then destroyed by an ignorant so-called "piana
rebildur" and the other one was here in town at another shop
owned by a dealer that recently cleaned out the place for
the first time in twenty years.  I asked them to save it and
I'd come back later and take it off their hands for them.  I
never heard or saw it again and that was a year ago.  I
suspect they dumped it but they may have realized they had
something sort of special and hid it again behind the heaps
of junk they didn't throw out.

Anyway, keep us updated, this sounds interesting.

Rob Goodale, RPT
Las Vegas, NV

Kim Stubblefield wrote:

> however,  the top octave and a half have something
> interesting....a sostenuto like device operating off the
> middle pedal that kicks in an alternate set of wood
> hammers which strike a series of bells built in under the
> keybed to the far right.   the bells are like teacup
> saucers stacked largest to the left on the horizontal.
> this is obviously not a retro-fit. a few of the wood
> mallets/hammers are broken...client has no money of course
> (they live where i do) but want to put it into playing
> shape. ANYBODY run into one of these before, have any
> ideas or thoughts?

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