Waren, Thanks very much for your comments and suggestions. They will help me a great deal. Yesterday my husband and I spent the morning dissassembling an old Milton upright. This piano was definitly a learning experience. The whole left side had come unglued from the back and someone had put corner brackets on to try to hold it in place. You could see where they had also pounded and stapled 2 of the back support posts back in as well. It was quite interesting to take this piano appart. I saved the parts which might prove usefull some day. We are trying to decide what to do with the harp now. Amazingly the harp is not cracked anywhere. Is it possible to use a harp from an old upright in another of the same size but different manufacturers? Is it worth storing until such a piano comes along? The rest of the cabinet will just be burned. Now if I can just find a spinet under 300.00 I will have one of each of the most common action types to learn on. I don't have a bird cage action but really don't want one either. Judy
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