Fortunately, spinets are starting to get fewer and fewer in numbers. Indeed another nasty thing to work on, but hey, replacing the dreaded plastic elbows from the 40's and 50's is easy money. I just get disappointed with them in that they don't sound all that much better after they've been tuned. I have run across a few Acrosonics over the years that are respectable though. I suppose there are fewer birdcages in the US as they had a difficult ocean, rail passage and/or covered wagon to deal with. Probably more of them on the east coast than out west. The 1880's was still "The Old West" What we have here is a ton of the huge old uprights like Bush and Lane...They just won't give up! :>) Paul "David Boyce" <David at piano.plus.com> Sent by: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 04/24/2009 05:22 PM Please respond to pianotech at ptg.org To <pianotech at ptg.org> cc Subject Re: [pianotech] unusual english piano And incidentally, I'd rather work on the various birdcage pianos we have so many of here, than the many dropped-action console/spinet pianos you have in the US! (We have a few here too, of course, but not in the same proportion). Best, David. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090425/d61390b7/attachment.html>
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