University Piano Sales RE: Weird Spinet

[Joe And Penny Goss]

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  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Avery Todd=20
  To: Pianotech=20
  Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 4:36 PM
  Subject: Re: University Piano Sales RE: Weird Spinet


  Alan,=20

  Do you really expect us to believe that ANY dealer would sell ANY =
Steinway for that kind of price???????? No matter what condition it was =
in???? :-) Somehow, I seriously doubt it! I wish I could find a dealer =
that stupid!=20

  Avery Todd

  At 01:38 PM 1/9/05, you wrote:

    Frank Hennessey, whom many of you know well, tells an interesting =
story about a customer of his who bought a Steinway grand (M, I think) =
for $250 at a university sale. She called to ask him if he thought it =
would be a good deal since the piano was "kind of beat up." He told her, =
of course, that he'd be happy to buy it if she didn't!
    =20
    Ya never know.
    =20
    Well, sometimes ya know and ya still make dumb choices. What's up =
with THAT?=20
    =20
    Alan R. Barnard
    Salem, MO

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      From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [ =
mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Joe Garrett

      Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 12:48 PM

      To: pianotech

      Subject: Weird Spinet


      Friday, I had the dubious honor of "tuning" a 1939 "Musette". =
Sheesh! It was parallel stung w/a single bridge/giant hockey stick, (you =
could hit the puck from anywhere on the ice!). More bi-chord wound =
stings than I wanted to count! Harmonics----nothing matched! Real fun, =
to say the least. The poor owner had bought it at a "University Sale", =
for $2,000! (Gawd, I hate those sales!...even more now!) The odd thing =
was that the piano was constructed very well. Nice Ivory, action was =
nice, throughout. Played nice, just sounded like crap! The whole thing =
closed up like a square grand. I hope this was the only one ever made, =
so that none of you have to try and work on anything like it. BTW, it =
had a grand lyre, w/only two functioning pedals, (the middle rod was =
attached to a spring on the underside of the keybed. Lovely! :-(

      I usually relish working on the weird, but not this one!

      Regards,

      Joe Garrett, R.P.T.

      Captain, Tool Police

      Squares R I


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