I'm with you. What a mightmare waiting to happen. Nice piece of furnature to make a DVD case or aquarium out of. It's interesting to note the veneer work in those old English pianos was so much better than the piano itself. they're quite pretty. Very few techs will touch them. A giant can of worms to be sure....on the inside.. And...who can do that nice of craftwork with veneer anymore? Paul John Ross <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca> Sent by: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 04/24/2009 03:43 PM Please respond to pianotech at ptg.org To pianotech at ptg.org cc Subject Re: [pianotech] unusual english piano This is one of the 'dreaded' 'birdcage action' pianos. The cheap ones are no good. I have ran across a couple of German ones that were surprisingly better, than the inexpensive English ones, which this one is. I wouldn't even consider it worth tuning, and would certainly not recommend anyone buy it. Just my take. John Ross, Windsor, Nova Scotia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Carlton" <carltonpiano at sbcglobal.net> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:43 PM Subject: [pianotech] unusual english piano 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090424/ce9a1ce7/attachment.html>
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