Kranich and Bach Plate Crack

[Richard Moody]

comments interjected.... 

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> From: Susan Kline <skline@proaxis.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Kranich and Bach Plate Crack
> Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 5:11 AM
> 
> Dear Ric --
> 
> You haven't been cheating, have you, and getting some of these details
from
> the incredible "King" upright? 

King, never heard of it.  However the decal in a certain catalog is so
simple, it should be discounted..... $15.00,,,, they should be ashamed of
themselves.....; )
> 
> Okay, list, maybe someone can tell me: Have any of you come across any
> piano with a name suggestive of royalty or named after a composer that
was
> fit for any musical endeavor at however elementary a level? 

Ahem, there is the Monarch, which btw if anyone is interested in a 1929
model, (47") for $850, in near excellent condition. ( I am representing
the seller) Walnut case still shines. (in Chamberlain South Dakota)  
The Monarch of course wasn't the top of the Baldwin line, but it wasn't
the bottom.  I was told they were rated highest to lowest, Ellington,
Hamilton, Howard, Monarch, and another. 

>or named after a composer that was

I have just hauled home a Schuman upright, which I think had promise,
(Having survived a stint in the Lake Andes SD resort and then stored in a
chicken coop.) Or at least the pressure bars did,(massive)  which were
removed, but the client found them, for some reason she took them off, but
I didn't dig for detail on this.... yet.  I am not familiar with the
Schuman,  if anyone has is and wants to say how great it is  I would like
to hear.... 

Richard Moody 
Piano Tuner Technician---South Central South Dakota. 
1-800-244-1906