You mean Schomacker? I think the last piano was built in 1941 or thereabouts. Many of the older pianos held up fairly well over the years but if it is 1916 vintage, it is almost 100 years old and was in line for major renovations years ago already. Unless that person took excellent care of it by a qualified technician and had all of that stuff taken care of over the years that needed attention, which is probably unlikely, it may not be worth fixing. Remember, it is an OLD piano. If the school cannot afford it, they may very likely be stuck with a piano that will be played on that not to many people will enjoy using or listening to. Jer From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Marshall Gisondi Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 10:43 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] a piano brand Hi everyone, Is anyone familiar with a piano called shomaker or shomacker? I'm tying to see if this is a good piano. This person might be interested in donating it to a school in our area. I mentioned that I'm trying to help this school obtain newer pianos. I did thank them for their kind offer of course. This Shomaker is a grand from 1916. I'm assuming it will need some restoration or reconditioning. I decided to run an ad on craiglist to line up potential pianos for donation inorder to present this to the schol and hopefully find them pianos that are not in need of so much repair. I'm up for the challenge of repairing these pianos,but their budget won't allow it. So I'm hoping to find them pianos that require little work if any. As for let off, what about the magnetic rubber strip method we used at the school? It works great, but in the bass you have to use a diffeent method. Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org <http://www.pianotuningschool.org/> Vancouver, WA _____ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/> now. _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 091212-0, 12/12/2009 Tested on: 12/12/2009 10:53:22 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091212/15859868/attachment.htm>
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