Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote: >List >I need some feedback. I looked at a remarkably well preserved Bechstein. 6 1/2 ft in rosewood grand. My Dads shop finished & >strung it 23 years ago. Quite a good sound for a 123 yr. old board. Amazing aint it ? :) >Original leather covered hammers.agraffes to the top, violin bridge, big tail. Perfect ivory. The sound is a little woody in the top. I find the old designs with >agraffes all the way up to be a bit weak but this was not bad. The rosewood case has nice carved legs, round fallboard, & beautiful cutout type music >desk. I have trouble getting excited about pianos this age but someone would. I need a range of evaluation for insurance purposes. I have an idea but don't >want to say till Ihear from some of you who perhaps have a better grasp of this market. Oh, it has a 3 legged matching original stool as well. >Thanks in advance Dale -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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