Butterfly

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In a message dated 9/15/2000 10:54:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tuner@mediaone.net writes:

> I got a call today to tune a butterfly piano. The woman
>  said the lid opens like a butterfly.
>  
>  Can someone please shed some light on this for me before
>  I go over there and make a fool out of myself not being
>  familiar with this beast (insect?)
>  
>  Thanks.
>  
Sure, Martin.

Wurlitzer made several models of very small, decorator grands that were 
symmetrical (tail of the piano in the middle, not off to the left) and opened 
with a hinge down the middle of the lid so "half lids" opened on either side, 
like a butterfly, get it?

Not a great piano. I am told that several of the symmetrical grands that were 
made by Mason & Hamlin, Sohmer, and Knabe opened like this as well, but I 
have never seen any of them with this design.

Hope this is worth what you are paying,

Richard Galassini
Cunningham Piano Co.
Phila.,Pa.
1 (800) 394-1117
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