Anything that old, the brand name is fairly irrelevant. What has it been through? Any work every done on it? If you are looking for a piano donation for a school, I would start by looking for something less than forty years old. David Stocker, RPT Fir Tree Piano Tumwater, WA From: Marshall Gisondi Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 19:42 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 Vancouver, WA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091212/477856ea/attachment.htm>
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