should I repair, replace, retreat, or recommend a recking ball on Thomas vertical?

[David Lawson]

We had them in Oz too. A fine fine fine bit of junk if ever there was some.
They were made in Ireland by a Dutch company. The factory was at the airport
so they could make a quick getaway.
All the parts fell to pieces and were unfixable.
David Lawson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel A. Jones" <jajones2 at wisc.edu>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: should I repair, replace, retreat,or recommend a recking ball
on Thomas vertical?


> Mark,
>
> I'll be watching the Southern border of Madison.  No  room
> for any more interesting nonstandard pianos in this part of
> Wisconsin.
>
> I know - there is a Chapter program in this mess somewhere.
> As Chairman of that committee what an easy program for
> you.
>
> Joel
> Joel Jones, RPT
> Madison, WIl
> On Jul 25, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Barbara Richmond wrote:
>
> > There is no future for the piano.  There was one in my area, that got
> > sold
> > to someone else <after> I had condemned it.  Then I got <another> call
> > from the people who bought it from them...
> >
> > Sort of makes one wonder about some folks' ethics.
> >
> > Who knows, maybe the very same piano made its way up there to
> > Wisconsin.
> > I wonder how many miles north it traveled with each sale?  :-)
> >
> > No, actually the one I saw had keys breaking at a pivot where a
> > balance pin
> > should have been.  Can't really remember what the connection was
> > like--all I
> > recall was it was <different>.
> >
> > Barbara Richmond, RPT
> > near Peoria, Illinois
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Ultsch" <multsch at jvlnet.com>
> > To: "pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:56 AM
> > Subject: should I repair, replace, retreat,or recommend a recking ball
> > on
> > Thomas vertical?
> >
> >
> >> hi folks,
> >>
> >> I've run across an "interesting" non-standard piano with an
> >> uninteresting problem.
> >>
> >> It is a Thomas model PT vertical.  Serial no. 041384.  The nameplate
> >> lists the manufacturer as Thomas Organ of Sepulveda California.
> >> Pierce atlas lists only Thomas Piano (not Thomas Organ) as being from
> >> Sepulveda.  So, how old is this, anyway?
> >>
> >
>
>
>