<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <font face="Arial"> <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. <div><br> </div> <div>Terry Farrell</div> <br> <div>On Aug 23, 2012, at 2:51 AM, David Nereson wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> I would think a straight-strung 100-yr-old Bechstein would be an antique worthy of complete restoration.<br> --David Nereson, RPT  <br> </blockquote> <br> Yes, exactly!<br> <br> David.<br> </font> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>