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<div>Great, David!</div>
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<div>I would try to get this most playable without destroying any historical value where possible. This is a great find. Good luck! What if Beethoven himself played this? Wow! Can you find any history on this instrument? We would love to know.</div>
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<div>Paul</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>David Boyce <<a href="mailto:David@piano.plus.com">David@piano.plus.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>"<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, November 27, 2012 3:32 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [pianotech] Collard & Collard<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font face="Arial">Well, I said to the client that I would have a think about his piano, and get opinions from you guys and gals, and let it percolate before getting back to him.<br>
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My feeling is growing that it would be really nice to have it carefully restored but without needing new soundboard/bridges, by someone like Period Piano
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http://www.periodpiano.com/restoration.html</a> I have emailed them to ask their opinion.<br>
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The action is not much worn - the hammers could easily be filed without needing recovering. All the action centres are very stiff, but I tried Protek CLP on a couple and the effect was immediate. Interestingly there is no evidence at all of moth damage.<br>
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David.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/11/2012 21:12, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pianotech-request@ptg.org">
pianotech-request@ptg.org</a> wrote:<br>
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<div>Back to the wonderful piano you have discovered; Are you encouraging the owner to have some rebuilding done to it? It's really quite a wonderful piano and it's potentials are still there, or at least it looks that way. Please do tell!</div>
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