On 07/30/2012 11:01 PM, Joseph Garrett wrote: > Wim, > That is YOUR opinion not MINE! > I've just completed an 1860 ish German Upright. Straight Strung. It is > Circasian Walnut, with beautiful carvings and candleabras. It got it all, > EXCEPT to be refinished. (The customer likes it with all it's "character > marks".<G>) The cost? I won't say.. However, that little cottage piano is > absolutely GEORGOUS! Tonally, Aesthetically and with a nice light touch, > (typical of those of that period). I'd put it up against anything out there > of comparable size and of twice what I did the total rebuild for. This > little piano would knock the doors off of the BEST Pleyel! AND, at about > 1/3 the cost of that Pleyel! That is the only piano that would come close > to how this piano is. You tell me that "..in the "grand old day"...blah de > blah crap! This IS the grand olde days.. You live in a totally weird place > that is not suitable for any decent piano to reside and complain about the > crap you have to work on??? You don't have a clue about REAL rebuilding and > care and love that goes into it. All you care about is the BOTTOM LINE. > Horse pucky! > Joe Simply - AMEN ! -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler at att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years
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