<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> You're absolutely right, Richard, about the bread on the table!  And they've also got many a family's piano lessons of to an acceptable start, these little "late production" birdcage pianos.  Who made them - Kemble?  One of those little late-era birdcage pianos, if pins tight an all working OK is still better for a learner, in my opinion, than even a high-end Digital Piano.  Where families have to be careful in the UK though, is not to be fooled by the "modernised" birdcage pianos which LOOK like 1930s but are really 1880s with casework "modernised" in the 1950s.  There are plenty of birdcage action pics on the Birdcage Pianos page of my website, and one on the Buying a Secondhand Piano page. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.davidboyce.co.uk/birdcage-pianos.php">http://www.davidboyce.co.uk/birdcage-pianos.php</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.davidboyce.co.uk/buying-a-secondhand-piano.php">http://www.davidboyce.co.uk/buying-a-secondhand-piano.php</a> Best regards, David. <blockquote type="cite">I would say that this is the absolute classic, and most probably one of the last, overdamper pianos still found all over UK.  There must be thousands still around.  The bent-wood columns and small motif on the top door are the first giveaway to what you will find inside.   A pity the action is not pictured.  You can bet your life that the rail which lifts all the dampers will be sagging towards the treble. However, they still put meals on the table.   Richard </blockquote> </body> </html>