STEINWAY Upright Value

[Jon Page]

Nice story Les, but I wouldn't go that far.
Some of these old beasts can bring a tidy some.
Isn't the price on a new one about 15K?

Jon Page
At 11:01 PM 6/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>
>On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Jim Kinnear wrote:
> 
>> I need your help. 
>> I have a customer with an upright Steinway # 132889, c 1908  with matching
>> bench.
>> She is convinced that it is worth at least $5,000 CAN, and who knows, she
>> may be right! The piano is in immaculate shape, all original, great tone
and
>> action, and tight pinblock.
>> 
>> Any ideas will be welcome
>
>Hi, Jim:
>
>Relax. This is an easy one. Your client's old Steinway upright is,
>indeed, worth all of $5,000, Canadian. Shuold she ask, what follows is
>explaination of how that figure is calculated. The basic formula has many
>applications. Here goes.
>
>One of the late John Candy's lesser-known movies is a farce called
>"Canadian Bacon". In it, we, the US, invent a pretext for going to war
>with Canada as we try to bolster a sluggish, none-war-time, US
>economy. The ploy works. At least for a while.
>
>At one point, John and a friend are speeding to Toronto, driving a
>garbage truck covered with anti-Canadian  slogans-- "Down with Canucks",
>"Canada Sucks", and "All the way, USA". Stuff like that. Eventually the
>truck is stopped by an Ontario policeman--played by Dan Akroyd--who
>orders Candy out of the truck, points out the anti-Canadian slogans
>and asks him to explain them. As Candy stammers out a lame
>excuse, Akroyd cuts him off and points out that they are a clear
>violation of Canadian law, which demands that all such sayings be writ-
>ten in BOTH English AND French! Dan then watches as John spray-paints
>all the offensive slogans on the garbage truck in French, too.
>
>When John is finished and getting ready to leave, Akroyd informs him
>that there will also be a fine. "A fine", Candy asks? "How much?" "That'll
>be one thousand Canadian dollars, or ten bucks, US", Akroyd replies. John
>hands him ten dollars and goes on his way.   
>
>Well, Jim. I guess you can see where all this is leading. Citing Akroyd's
>explaination of the Canadian-US monetary exchange rate, you can confident-
>ly tell you client that--just as she suspected-- her old Steinway upright
>IS WORTH about $5,000, Canadian. Or, in other words, about fifty bucks,
>US. :)
>
>Les Smith 
>
>
>

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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