To Terry Farrell: you know they will probably call you back when it needs tuning again. in another hundred and thirty years. Matthew, from what you have said about the piano and client, there are a few options. If you don't want to get involved, tell them you do not specialize in servicing antique instruments and see if there is anyone in your area to refer them to. You might want to look into the conservation techniques like the April 2009 Journal article by Ken Eschete. Perhaps they really do want to keep the original parts and go the museum care type route. Another possibility is that the piano may be tunable and workable without too much work. I have also tuned a Civil War era piano and it amazed me that with all or mostly original parts it played and could be tuned. This was perhaps twenty years ago, so I cannot remember much about it. It was also an upright. Bruce Dornfeld, RPT bdornfeld at earthlink.net North Shore Chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090402/05373285/attachment.html>
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