List, Stories like this always remind me of how much we have lost in our late-20th Cent. obsession with homogeneity. Mehlin was one of the true geniuses of the trade. Ah, well. Horace At 09:50 AM 2/13/97 -0600, you wrote: >> The piano rebuilding shop where I work part time has acquired (very >> cheaply) a 1924 Mehlin 9 footer. ><SNIP> >Any ideas for prices/ >> maketing techniques for this little baby would really be appreciated. >> >> Thanks! >> Steven Moore >> Greenville SC > >Steven, >Are we related? (I guess not.) > >Does yours have a "tone hole" in the sound board? I've only seen one - >it was at the shop at Houston Community College during the time I was in >school. Mehlin, originally a violin maker, cut a hole in the sound >board, evidently to eliminate some unusual harmonics, or maybe just >because violins have them. Just wondering if they did that to all, or >just the one we had. > >Anyway, it sat around in the way for 9 years, our instructor didn't feel >it was worth the cost of parts for a rebuild, even with slave, er, >student labor. He finally sold it for $1,000.00 and considered himself >lucky! > >Best wishes, >Danny Moore >Houston Chapter > > Horace Greeley "Great ideas have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein Stanford University email: hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu voice mail: 415.725.9062 LiNCS help line: 415.725.4627
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