<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>You are absoultely right about that, Terry! But unless your souped-up rebuild is on the showroom floor at a major dealer NEXT TO to a relatively pale-sounding, $25,000 "newbie", who'd be able to tell??? (Hey! Here's an idea! Go get a new, expensive piano and keep it at your shop for just such a comparison.)<br /><br />Thumpe<br /><br />P.S. On the "WD-40" issue: it was my understanding that it flushes out water BY bonding with it, though it is an oil, which is why it took 40 tries to find a formula that would do just that. </div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">If someone were to give me their high-end old upright AND $20K, I'd give them back a better-than-new, better-than-anything-available (of comparable size) remanufactured upright. IMHO, much better way to go than to dump $25K on a new high-end upright.<div><br></div><div>But how many are willing? :-(</div><div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 23, 2012, at 7:02 AM, David Boyce wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<blockquote type="cite">Perhaps. But one has to differentiate
between musically worthy and financially worthy. Many pianos -
especially many of the high-end old uprights are very much
musically worthy of complete restoration/remanufacture, but very
few folks that are willing to pay the $$. Sad but true.
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I would think a straight-strung 100-yr-old Bechstein would be an
antique worthy of complete restoration.<br>
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Yes, exactly!<br>
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