<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2">Hi Paul</font> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2"> The value is really determined by what the cost of a total restoration would be. A 1929 B rode hard and put away wet, as you put it, is most likely going to need </font> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2">everything including a new key set. So if the </font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">restoration</font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2"> cost are for example 35K to 40 K the question remains.....what can it be sold for after work?</font></div> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2">Many shops across the country are finding it difficult to recoup 50K for even the most fastidiously restored Bs. In my opinion that's a tragedy but it is what it is.</font></div> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2"> In my opinion the piano presently is perhaps worth 7 to 12 K depending on condition.</font></div> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2"> Bob Friedmans is a stand up guy with his finger on the pulse nationwide. Call him<br> </font><br> <div style="color: navy; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; clear: both;"><font size="1" color="royalblue"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin R.P.T.<br> <font color="green">Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.</font><br> </font></font></font></b></font><font color="darkgreen"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><font size="1" color="black"><font color="blueviolet"><font color="black"> <font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Mason & Hamlin</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">/Steinway/</font><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">U.S. pianos</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> </font></font></font></font><font size="1" color="cornflowerblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">www.Erwinspiano.com</font><font size="1"><br> </font><font size="1" color="crimson" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Phone: 209-577-8397</font><br> <font color="darkgreen"></font></font></b></span></font><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen"><br>  </font><br>   <font size="2"></font></tt></tt><br> <br> </div> <br> <br> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: paul bruesch <paul@bruesch.net><br> To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Thu, Jan 3, 2013 7:12 pm<br> Subject: [pianotech] Rebuildable S&S B<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_45c144ed-94df-4cc2-adb9-ad86b3f30d41"> <div dir="ltr">I have a customer with a 1929 S&S (NY) B. It's been in a supper club for many years, been rode hard and put up wet. Customer says the action is from another B which was in even worse condition. This action is verdigris'd, although I did very successfully use the brake parts cleaner trick on it.  <div> <br> </div> <div style="">Customer has a second S&S B from 1968. It has also been in the supper club for years, but it is in overall much better condition.</div> <div style=""><br> </div> <div style="">He called me recently to ask if I thought he could sell one or the other of them. I suspect he's having cash flow issues, but I didn't ask. I suggested he should sell the 1929 model - because then he'd still have a piano in the place! He wanted me to suggest an asking price. I declined, but mentioned something I'd read here a few years back about a rebuilding carcass going for ca $1000 per foot. I don't recall if that was before or during the plantetary economic slump... does that rule of thumb still apply? Or is it regional, like a better-playing instrument?</div> <div style=""><br> </div> <div style="">Thanks!<br> Paul Bruesch<br> Stillwater, MN</div> </div> </div>  </div> </div> </div> </font>