[pianotech] very old pianos

[Ron Nossaman]

> I have read, with strong interest, the series of articles in the recent 
> Journals about restringing and replacing pinblocks in old uprights.
> Most of these are near, if not more than, 100 years old, why would we 
> want to refuse to work on them?

> Mike

Boy, I wish we could finally get this straightened out just 
once before I die. There's a vast difference between doing 
field patch up on an ancient crappie shelter candidate and 
rebuilding the old beater. Both are being "worked" on, but one 
  will have something to show for the money and effort and the 
other won't.

Ron N