Speaking with a customer today, he said when he was a lad and lived in UK he went into a shop, called "Vivien Cohen" - and they had the famous Challen 11' Grand. My customer said it was a complete and uttter dud. The salesman agreed with him. Years later this same customer went into another piano shop (which only sold Challen) and they said they now had the very same 11' he had played in the other shop. And, this shop had changed the design of the shop such that the Grand was now stuck in a back room and couldn't be taken out because of the shop alterations - and the shop couldn't sell it and didnt know what to do with it Thought this may be of interest, at least to Barrie. Brian Lawson IC PTG, MPT
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