I am working on a Haines N.Y. and can't date it either. # 8577 is everywhere you would expect a serial # to be but the Atlas is no help. This is an odd case. Not a bent rim, but squared and joined almost looks like a squared harpsichord. It has double legs and a textured plate. The piano is average but the case is interesting. The customer thinks it is about 70 years old. Anyone come across one of these? ----- Original Message ----- From: wimblees at aol.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Haynes baby grand Rob I rebuilt a Haines Bros. a couple of decades ago. It was eventually bought by a local theater company who used it in their rehearsal studio. It wasn't the greatest instrument I had ever done, but it held up nice, and served it's purpose. Rebuilding a piano like this is not worth what it could possibly bring on the open market. But in this case, if the customer has strong sentimental attachments to it, as long as she understands that for the same amount of money she can buy a brand new instrument in much better condition, go ahead and give her a proposal to do the work. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Rob McCall <rob at mccallpiano.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thu, Sep 10, 2009 9:42 pm Subject: [pianotech] Haynes baby grand Greetings List, I came across a 5'6" Baby Grand that has "Haynes" stenciled on the fallboard. Nothing on the soundboard or anywhere else to give me any other information. It has a serial number of 4429. This number is repeated in several places. However, this number doesn't match up at all with the Haynes, NY pianos in the Pierce Piano Atlas, or anything else that says Haynes in the book. The owner thinks it's from 1931, but I found a pencil mark on the side of the action that has a date marked 11/17/25, so I'm thinking that might be the date or close to it. Anyone ever come across one of these? Do you have an idea of the date it was made? Does this have any intrinsic value? It's in desperate need of new strings and tuning pins (lots of rust), pinblock, new hammers/shanks/flanges, rebuild the action, etc. The soundboard appears to be intact yet the bass bridge is about to splinter into 1,000 pieces. The case was refinished about 10 years ago and looks nice, but the innards, well... suck. I'm trying to ascertain for my client if it's worth rebuilding the insides but it's hard to find out any info about this particular piano. Any help would be appreciated. By the way, there's a strong emotional bond with this piano and it's owners. She took lessons on it as a child, etc. so I know that'll affect their decision, but I wanted to give them some logical input as well. Thanks! Rob McCall Murrieta, CA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090911/251ddf66/attachment.htm>
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