You wrote.......
Canada is for socialized medicine, not piano.....
Really now...check your facts. Canada had many
many many piano companies, some lasted over
a hundred years.
The Canadian piano with the greatest
reputation, and the highest rebuilt sale
value seems to be Heintzman.
One dealer in Ottawa sells "rebuilt"
Heintzman uprights for $10,000, with
original board, bridges, pinblock,
but the rest done(sometimes reshaped
hammers....hmmm .....at this price)
...and people pay it. Too high in my
humble opinion.
Bolduc claims 1920's Heintzman was
"One of the best uprights ever built"
I have a Karn grand, 6'6", Canadian,
that has the most incredible bass snarl
with 90 year old string and hammers.....,
more then my 6'2" Steinway A2.
Lots of nice features about it,
looking forward to fixing that one.
Canada is a small market. None of our
200 or so companies survived past 1982.
Some were poor, but others were very
very fine instruments that given larger
market, better planing...etc. would have
world class reputations today.
Dave Renaud
RPT
Canada
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