Apollo grand

[Robin Blankenship]

Les, you raise an interesting point about relating the piano to its "place
in history". I often make an analogy to automobile, since nearly everyone
has a sense of overall rankings of them. With a grand, if it is a brand name
I am not real comfortable with, I look for those indicators of quality, or
not, such as where are the agraffes, any wound tri-chords, etc. Once I have
a sense of what level of instrument this once was, I put it in terms of an
automobile (Rolls, Buick, Model T, etc). Of course, I only do this if the
customer is not knowledge about pianos at all (many first time buyers are
not). They seem to appreciate having someone put their instrument in
prospective for them. Naturally, if theirs is a Model T, I look for some
other way of conveying that impression to them!! Perhaps, others on the list
would like to discuss what aspects of a given piano they factor in when
faced with a semi-unknown quantity.

Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: Leslie W Bartlett <lesbart@juno.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>; <MPT@talklist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 1:06 AM
Subject: Apollo grand


> Hello list(s)
>
> Anyone had experience with an Apollo grand piano.  It had no serial
>number, and, when I got under it to look for one, found there are no
>braces under it either.  A nice young couple for whom I've tuned this
>"thing" twice, got it "free" and then spend a couple thousand to have it
>"fixed".  There were only half a dozen pins that wouldn't even hold
>pitch...............   These folks are thinking of "someday" having it
>rebuilt.  I suspect they don't know it yet, but they don't really want to
>spend huge amounts of money on this thing.
>
> BTW  I superguled the slipping pins, and they seem to hold. My interest
>is in the piano as it might have compared to other pianos in "its day".
>
>thanks
>les bartlett
>houston
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