<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 6/6/02 8:10:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ssclabr8@flash.net writes:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">I just got a call to come over and tune/inspect a Cunningham baby grand. I'm relatively new to the business and haven't run across this name before. The owner got it from someone free of charge. I asked her how it sounded and she said she wasn't sure because she was tone deaf (this should be a real fun visit!)</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">She did say it looked very old and she knew that it hadn't been tuned in years. Anybody heard of this make? Anything I should watch out for?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Thanks,</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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Ok seriously, the original Cunningham Piano Company made mostly player pianos, uprights, and small grands. If the piano was made before WW I it may be over 6 ft. long, but in all likelyhood be prepared for a 5' to 5'4" piano. It was made before 1941 (That is when production ceased) so it may very well need rebuilding, not tuning.<BR>
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There is one other possibility. I am told that in the 1950s and 1960s Cunningham had a variety of manufacturers make pianos of differing qualities and sizes to market in the Philadelphia area. (We have never heard of THIS before, have we?) If it is one of those pianos, I can say that I have seen very good ones........and not very good ones. <BR>
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I hope this helps.<BR>
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Richard Galassini<BR>
Cunningham Piano Co & Factory<BR>
Philadelphia, Pa.<BR>
(800) 394-1117<BR>
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