They saved the green paint for their very best .... ROFL I hope they go for it, and you fix it, with sticky fingers and a grin on your face. Susan On 11/12/2010 2:45 PM, Barbara Richmond wrote: > That's right, Susan. The piano, with Betsy Lynn (not Betsy Ross) on > the fall board, must have been a high-end Grand Piano Company > offering. <grin> It seems like a pretty typical piano, though not > one I would choose to play, with everything in reasonable shape. No > two string plain wires or an entire bass section of monochords. I've > never had the <pleasure> of working on the Grand Piano spinet other > folks have described. And yes, the music director mentioned more than > once how she liked the tone of the piano. > > Anyway, knowing that money is an issue, I wanted to give some options. > > Barbara Richmond, RPT > near Peoria, Illinois > > > ----- Original Message -- > From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org> > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 2:39:29 PM > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Imagine > > On 11/12/2010 11:20 AM, Dean May wrote: > > But a simple split bass bridge is easily repaired with some glue > in less than an hour. > > The little green-plated ..... errrr ..... Grand Piano seemed to be in > fairly good shape otherwise, and the people at the church preferred > its tone to the other spinet. Reason enough to fix the bass bridge, > which needn't be too hard to do. > > It's not like the piano was on the verge of a one-hoss-shay collapse, > whatever its brand. > > Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101112/9bb41f94/attachment.htm>
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