<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&#39;d be able to tell??? (Hey! Here&#39;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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                            Terry Farrell &lt;mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com&gt;;                            <br>
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                                <span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span>
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">If someone were to give me their high-end old upright AND $20K, I&#39;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? &nbsp;:-(</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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        <div>On Aug 23, 2012, at 2:51 AM, David Nereson wrote:</div>
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        I would think a straight-strung 100-yr-old Bechstein would be an
        antique worthy of complete restoration.<br>
        --David Nereson, RPT&nbsp; <br>
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      Yes, exactly!<br>
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