This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dear List- I'm dealing with a difficult situation with a customer who has purchased = an 1892 Steinway vertical on Ebay. The piano has been restrung in the plain wire and repinned in the bass, = "turning the bass strings." The repinning was done with 4/0 pins with = apparently no preparation of the holes in the pinblock. Pin torque = varies wildly, with many high treble pins over 225 inch pounds. I = cannot imagine now how to restring properly without replacing the = pinblock. =20 Raising pitch 80 cents and tuning was miserably difficult, perhaps = tuning will be manageable when the strings have stabilized....?=20 Refinishing is a thin black lacquer (were 1890's verticals done in = ebony?), and the brass lock plate and pedals have been carefully = polished. Hammers have been re-shaped past regulation, key pins turned in the = front bushings, and key covers glued to fit the notch, with the tips = overhanging, and no shaping. The customer had hopes of buying a piano that would become a family = heirloom. The seller told her the old bass strings were so good that = they didn't need replacement, and that she could eventually complete the = restoration with new hammers and dampers. I would be interested in your opinions of what is the going value of an = 1892 Steinway vertical, rebuilt to very good playing and tuning = condition, and what the purchase price of the instrument as it is should = be. Also I would appreciate your comments on the pinblock. Thank you very much. Ed Sutton ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/90/60/ab/b2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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