<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> </head> <body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <div>Still something to restore!  So…Debussy or someone?  Nice project, anyway. Good luck!  Composers were better travel equipped by then.  Still,  who may have touched it??  It's a fascinating story and it has lots to tell.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>P</div> <div><br> </div> <span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"> <div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"> <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 4:34 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 and Collard<br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font face="Arial">OK, so, I've had a nice reply trom David Winston of Period Piano.  It seems that this Collard & Collard dates from about 1870, not 1826. Apparently they had different series of numbers for different models.  1870 certainly makes more sense. They are not that rare a model, David says.<br> <br> So my excitement has died down a little!  But it's still nice.<br> <br> Best regards,<br> <br> David.<br> <br> <br> </font></div> </div> </span> </body> </html>