<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Joseph Garrett <<a href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net" target="_blank">joegarrett@earthlink.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Dale said: "Trix had a client call today with a story tone piano. It is not a Story and Clark acoustic piano with a story tone soundboard. It has no soundboard. It was apparently one of the first amplified pianos made. It needs work on the amplifier and who knows what. The question? Any one have any experience with these that I may put in touch with her. I want to be out of the evolutionary electronic loop. capische?" Dale, Where's your sense of adventure!??? I'd say you need to mix it up a bit and get out of that rut you're in!<G> There is one of those in the PTG Museum. Ask Jack, he's knows it all.<G> Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain of the Tool Police Squares R I </blockquote></div> <div> I was called out on one of those about 15 or 20 years ago by a HS classmate of mine, I think if memory serves, it was in the house when he bought it, in the basement of course. It was a spinet, again if I'm recalling correctly & the tuning pins seemed awfully loose. He had no one that played & he was wondering if there was any value to it, I couldn't find anyone interested in it at the time & I believe it ended up in the landfill.</div> <div>My point is that unless someone wanted to restore it as a museum piece the cost of restoration would probably out weigh any interest as a conversation piece.</div> <div>Mike -- I think we are a product of all our experiences. <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/sanfordiw283095.html" target="_blank">Sanford I. Weill</a> Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 <a href="http://www.ifixpianos.com/" target="_blank">www.IFixPianos.com</a> email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com" target="_blank">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>