<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007>Greetings all --</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007>A bit of a curiosity here that perhaps one, or more, of you can shed some light on.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007>Shafer & Sons WG-5 upright</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007>sn: 810168 (<FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007>There are no letters preceding the serial number.)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007>Pierce says 1985, BUT the dealers invoice for the purchase is dated 1981. And, she and the dealer invoice both claim that she bought it "new". </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007>Also, at least two wound bass strings are mismatched and there are two philip head screws in the soundboard, along the grain and about 8" apart, right in the middle of the bass section. Since the mismatched strings are buzzing I'm going to be replacing both pairs.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007>She has never had any strings replaced, and except for tuning, has never had any work done on it. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007>So, how much of this description seems unreasonable to you for a new piano? Any ideas what's going on? Neither of us have a real problem with any of this. Except for the two buzzing strings the piano is very nice and performing well. But having found these discrepancies, we're now just curious about what she really has.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007>-- Geoff Sykes</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007>-- Los Angeles</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007>-- <A href="http://www.ivories52.com">www.ivories52.com</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564240023-26072007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>