Billbrpt@aol.com wrote: > I'm very happy to see people talking about the value in quality workmanship > with older Uprights. Bill & anyone else interested in old uprights, I suggest that an important moral aspect of the technician's job is knowing WHICH older pianos are worthy of investment and which ones were poorly designed, poorly built PSOs when they were new. Not long ago, a list contributer stated that if a piano was worth, say $500 before repairs, and it had $1500 worth of work done to it, it should be valued at $2,000 after the work was completed. I can think of many old pianos that would not be worth $2000 - or $200 - under any circumstance. Taking a customer's $1500 would, in that instance, merely be taking a customer's $1,500. Everything build during the "golden era" does not have the quality of a M&H screw stringer, a S&S or a 19th century Chickering. Danny Moore Houston Chapter
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