Hello everybody! I've seen a small Pleyel upright for sale. It is from around 1860-65 (serial number ~34000), no cast iron frame, just 1 or 2 iron bars. It is in decent shape, with a pretty bookmatched veneer case, although it doesn't hold the tuning. It has a strange overdamper action, with really tiny dampers, without an escapement on the jack (I wonder how it it supposed to work - but it repeats as well as a modern upright). It is parallel strung, with the strings angled to the right. Left pedal shifts the hammers like on a grand (una corda). The sound is not bad, and would expect it to be quite nice when properly tuned. Anyway, I was thinking of buying it. Would this be an instrument worth getting or should I kep looking? How much would one pay for such an upright? I have some (unfortunately bad) pictures in case someone's interested. Calin Tantareanu ---------------------------------------------------- http://calintantareanu.tripod.com ----------------------------------------------------
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