<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Andrew and Rebeca Anderson <<a href="mailto:anrebe@sbcglobal.net">anrebe@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div> Well Al,<br> Maybe we mean different things when we say "clunker".  <br><br>...snip...</div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>South Texas weather is brutal to glue joints and everything glued (case, hammer-felt, etc.) was coming apart.  You could push a pencil through the cracks in the soundboard.</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>From my listening to others in different regions describe old uprights, there are certain regions that are "brutal" to pianos, and certain regions that are not.  I'm in a region that is brutal to them.  When those of us speak of old uprights as "clunkers," we really <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">do</span></span> know what we're talking about (FOR OUR AREA!)  Obviously, the converse is true.  Those uprights in regions conducive to longevity are probably decent instruments.  We just hardly see 'em in our regions.  :-)<div> <br><div>-- <br>JF<br><br></div></div>