Daniel, If the serial number is 7800 then it was built about 1867. Looks very similar to the Collard & Collard 1865 that I worked on. Daniel Carlton wrote: > never seen one like this. wondering if anyone knows anything about it. > john delacour, you ever seen one of these? it's at an estate sale, and > the woman running the sale needs info and an approximate value. it's > been pinned with either 1 or 2 moden pins, not sure if they're 1s > because my pin gauge starts at 2. the strings are regular piano > strings. some pins are loose, so not holding pitch. keys are not > bushed. no iron plate, just an piece of iron for the hitch pin area. i > don't see much value in it in the state it's in, but is there any > value otherwise? > > thanks! > > Daniel Carlton -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler at att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: dsc01417.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 152250 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090424/1ae3fe92/attachment-0002.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: dsc01418.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 143395 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090424/1ae3fe92/attachment-0003.jpg>
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