Kimball Whitney

Clyde Hollinger cedel@supernet.com
Tue, 07 Jan 2003 07:28:11 -0500


Terry,

I'd be interested in what you find.  I service fourteen Janssens from spinets to uprights, but I've never seen a grand from them.  I'm not aware that there are any Jenson pianos.

Regards,
Clyde

Farrell wrote:

> I just made an appointment today to service a 1940s Janssen (or Jensen) grand piano. The dude just bought it for $750. No doubt quite a gem. His wife (who had 9 years of lessons) said that "it didn't seem to play like I remember pianos playing". Da. Should be a fun one.
>
> Did Janssen or Jensen ever really make a grand piano - or at least one with horizontal strings - I'm sure there are some Janssen spinets laying on their backs with horizontal strings in the dump!


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