"New" old uprights

[JIMRPT@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 5/02/2000 8:31:03 AM, you wrote:

<<Even the folks that want to keep that old upright, rather than
to buy the grand, want to do it as cheaply as possible, with the best
"visual" result they can get,........................I hope that isn't a 
universal thing
everywhere, but that's the story in my part of town.
Ron N>>

Ron; 
  That is the story here in the low rent section of Florida also.  I have 
done several comlpete 'rebuilds' on older uprights for persons who had 
various reasons for having it done.  Each of these turned out magnificently 
and surprised even me as to the quality of tone and and and appearance. :-)  
These were high dollar 'rebuilds' comparable to a 'rebuild' on a grand.  To 
an item each of these 'rebuilt' instruments were better than the price one 
could set on them for a dealers floor with expectations of selling them.  
With some of the new manufacture uprights, whatever the manufacture calls 
them, running in the 10-14 thousand dollar range it would seem to me that the 
time for more 'reasonable' expectations of 'rebuilding' old uprights is 
coming soon to an area near you.....or is that just wishful thinking?
Jim Bryant (FL)