[CAUT] "antique" pianos?

[Alan McCoy]

Hi John, 

This is not an answer to your question, but this sounds like a piano that
Bill Schull would like to hear about.

Alan


-- Alan McCoy, RPT
Eastern Washington University
amccoy at mail.ewu.edu
509-359-4627
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> From: John Minor <jminor at illinois.edu>
> Reply-To: <jminor at illinois.edu>, "College and University Technicians
> <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:31:38 -0500 (CDT)
> To: <caut at ptg.org>
> Subject: [CAUT] "antique" pianos?
> 
> I had  an elderly private customer with an 1869 8' 5" Steinway with rosewood
> case and serpentine legs, etc., in mediocre condition and not very playable. I
> appraised it as a piano(around 10K) rather than an "antique" and she was
> surprised it was not worth a lot more. I attempted to explain to her on the
> phone that pianos need to be event older than that to have any "antique"
> value, or be a hard-to-find instrument.
> 
> Has anyone had this happen? How do you explain to the public that old pianos
> are just that...old pianos?
> 
> John Minor
> University of Illinois