bosendorfer imperial pianos

[Stephen Airy]

As of yet I have NO experience (yet).  I would like to learn how to rebuild 
pianos, but I don't immediately have the time (college), space (no 
outbuilding on my property), or money (no job right now -- but your help in 
how to get started in piano tuning would help -- I have had a few lessons 
from Lee Hintz in San Diego area and I know Bruce Stevens).  Speaking of 
tuning, I still notice that sometimes (tuning by ear -- I have virtually no 
pitch reference at home where I'm practicing on 3 pianos (a 4'11" baby 
grand, a 52" upright, and a 57" upright), and I don't exactly trust the 
computer.  I often notice that I might be able to get the temperament 
fairly good in tune, but there'll often be a stray wildly-beating fifth or 
two (about 3-5bps near the midrange of the piano)

I had posted a picture of a junky piano a while back -- what do you think 
of practicing rebuilding on pianos of similar condition? (assuming the 
pinblock is still good) -- also, what brands would you stay away from when 
considering rebuilding a piano?  Also, I'm considering on starting out on 
uprights, and when i feel like working on a pinblock do it on a grand or -- 
what high-quality brands of uprights (for example my ideas are Steinway & 
Bosendorfer) do you think it might be possible to consider replacing a 
pinblock?

At 09:26 PM 11/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Stephen,
>
>Do you intend to remanufacture the piano yourself?  I have seen your name
>appearing here only recently, so I do not know how much experience you have in
>this area.
>
>If you have no experience in rebuilding, I would recommend getting the
>experience on pianos of much lesser value.  Learn your lessons and make your
>mistakes on those.  In my mind there is a certain responsibility all 
>rebuilders
>have to make sure that only topnotch work is done on high value pianos.
>Observing poor craftsmanship is always depressing, but much more so if the
>piano was once a fine instrument.
>
>I do not rebuild pianos, but I've given it consideration.  I would probably
>start with the cheapest grand I could find, as long as it was at least worth
>the trouble.
>
>Regards,
>Clyde Hollinger, RPT
>
>Stephen Airy wrote:
>
> > When I'm ready to get one, where can I get a free (or almost) Bosendorfer
> > Imperial concert grand?  I don't care if all the keytops (i wanna say
> > ivories :) have fallen off , the felt is completely worn from ALL the
> > hammers, and the piano is so far flat that the strings are falling out of
> > the tuning pins, I was wondering what the cheapest I could get one
> > is?  (for example 1981, or early 1970s).  Or, has anyone heard about Petrof
> > having a piano with extra keys in the bass?  I saw an ad on pianomart.com
> > for a petrof concert grand that they said had the same extra keys in the
> > bass as Bosendorfer, but, sadly, the ad at
> > http://www.pianomart.com/Petrof/petrof5.htm is about $29,000 out of my
> > price range, and right now I would need to sacrifice 9'3" or 9'6" too much
> > room in the living room.  :(  I would also be interested in info on the
> > Stuart & Sons Australian piano (upright preferred -- personal preference)
> > (it has extra keys in the treble) but I don't even want to think about the
> > price tag on those considering what I know about them!
> >
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