This piano and its strings would be WELL past it's "use by date" If you are not used to tuning overdamper pianos....RUN!!! Robin From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Marc Mailhot Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 10:59 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] New topic...Robert Bennett London piano Hi everyone. Got a good one for you all... Went to look at a piano today that was moved here to the States from Germany some time ago...and then moved here to Maine from New York State. Going to research this piano but was apparently made in London by Robert Bennett. Have the S/N too and will check into that. Also...interesting appears to be a "birdcage" type action...1st one I've ever seen in person. Piano is an upright. Also has not been tuned in at least 20 years and pins and strings seem OK but it's going to need at least 2 pitch raises before a proper tune because it's at least 150% flat...i.e...the C sounds more like B or even A...gotta be very careful on this. Also...customer does not want it tuned until Fall.The Case is OK and trapwork seems OK but the loud pedal lifts a board under the hammers to sustain the notes...and of course the entire inside needs to be cleaned. Damndest action I've ever seen. Told the customer to save some $$ and gently clean this herself with a soft vacuum brush tool. Looking for suggestions how to handle this and general comments on this one. And...thanks in advance. Marc P. Mailhot Marco Polo Music Westbrook, Maine USA http://ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/pianotech -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100127/ce337226/attachment.htm>
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