<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have an upright. You're right, it's built like an outdoor masonry sanitary facility. I got this one because it has an amazing carving on the music desk, huge fluted pillars, and over the top ornamentation all around. it is also one of the heaviest pianos I have ever moved.<DIV> </DIV><DIV>The carving on the front is like nothing I have ever seen on a piano. It depicts what looks like a Greek concert. Several women in a small amphitheater watching another woman play a lyre. It is beautiful.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>I am very curious to hear if anyone else has ever seen anything like this.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Chris</DIV><DIV> <DIV><DIV>On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:06 PM, David Ilvedson wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>I have a customer with a Strich& Zeidler Upright, #10341...Wow, built in 1900...their first year....(just looked it up). Very well designed and well made...their grands may very well be of the same quality. I'd check it out! David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 <DIV style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><HR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">Original message From: "Tim Geinert" To: "College and University Technicians" Received: 1/17/2007 11:40:05 AM Subject: [CAUT] Strich & Zeidler <DIV style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">Has anyone locked horns with a Strich & Zeidler grand? Are they any good? I may have an opportunity to pick one up cheap. It seems to be normal, but I thought I'd check.</DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">Tim Geinert</DIV></DIV></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T.School of Music, Ohio UniversityRm. 311, Robt. Glidden HallAthens, OH 45701Office (740) 593-1656Cell (740) 590-3842fax (740) 593-1429<A href="http://www.ohiou.edu/music">http://www.ohiou.edu/music</A> </DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>