Kap German piano

[John Delacour]

At 3:23 pm -0400 22/8/06, KeyKat88 at aol.com wrote:

>  I have a customer with a Kap Piano. Has anyone ever heard of this 
>brand. She said it was from Germany and it looks to be about 1920's 
>- 30's. Because of the really fine cabinet veneer work and 
>theÊcondition of the action parts, is this piano worth a new bass 
>bridge?..or do only Steinways hold their value and are worthy of 
>such work?

Kaps (not Kap) before the first war was a very interesting and 
inventive maker and every Kaps I have seen has been of excellent 
quality.  Many makers went rapidly downhill in quality after the war 
and Kaps was finished by 1930.  I have never seen anything from after 
the War so it's hard to tell, but from what you say it sounds good. 
Why would it need a new bass bridge?

JD