>>Okay, now here's that other list. I'll start:
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>>1. Lester "Betsy Ross"
>>2. Any piano with the word "Winter" in the name
>>3. Most church "basement" or rec-room pianos
>>4. PA Stark and similar 60's spinets
>>5. Gulbransen spinets/consoles
>>6. Pianos that have been underwater more than 6 decades
>>7. Any piano with bass string diameters exceeding, say, 1/2 inch <G>
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>>Alan Barnard
>
>8. Brambach
>9. Kranich & Bach
>10. Story & Clark school consoles ('60s/'70s)
>
>extra credit - any alleged grand under 5', but especially "La Petite".
>
>Conrad Hoffsommer PTG RPT, MPT, CCT
11. Poole
12 Grand
13 Whitney
Any of the last-gasp Aeolian products, most especially the "players"
Extra credit - "But all the keys work"
Ron N
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