Yes! You have to wait for the right buyer. After waiting for 6 years we finally sold the Story and Clark drop action spinet "Cowboy Model" for $1800. The buyer has a ranch and it just fit right in with the decor inside and outside the house <G> To see the piano just look in your Pierce Atlas for the piano with the Sons of the Pioneers standing arround it. Joe Goss imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:32 AM Subject: Re: Value of 1880 Bechstein no. 11,212 > Sorry bout that.. hit the send button a tad too soo. > > Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote: > > >List > >I need some feedback. I looked at a remarkably well preserved > Bechstein. 6 1/2 ft in rosewood grand. My Dads shop finished & > >strung it 23 years ago. Quite a good sound for a 123 yr. old board. > > Amazing aint it ? :) > > >Original leather covered hammers.agraffes to the top, violin bridge, > >big tail. Perfect ivory. The sound is a little woody in the top. I find > >the old designs with agraffes all the way up to be a bit weak but this > >was not bad. The rosewood case has nice carved legs, round fallboard, & > >beautiful cutout type music desk. I have trouble getting excited about > >pianos this age but someone would. I need a range of evaluation for > >insurance purposes. I have an idea but don't want to say till Ihear > >from some of you who perhaps have a better grasp of this market. Oh, it > >has a 3 legged matching original stool as well. > >Thanks in advance Dale > > Impossible to really put a price on these things... but if you want my > opinion... get an antique dealer to appraise its value as a pure antique > and figure that into your equation. Much has to do with how well it > looks,... general quality and type of refinishing, etc. How it performs > as a music instrument is really a second issue. You know already how to > judge that. > > One thing you can count on... piano techs nortoriously underprice these > things, while harpsichord and forte traders will sit on them long enough > to make a very pretty penny indeed. > > Cheers > RicB > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > UiB, Bergen, Norway > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no > http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html > http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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