<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>And isn&#39;t it curious that many owners will put more into how a piano looks than how it plays???<br />The most extreme example of piano modification I&#39;ve ever found is in one in a Sunday school class here, where someone cut a full-sized upright down into spinet size, by chopping the whole bottom of the piano off (plate included) or maybe cutting a swath out of the plate in the middle and welding the remaining halves together, <br />restringing it, and etc.. (I don&#39;t remember.) "Twilight-Zone-Quality" weird!!! (And it sounded truly dreadful, and was not a profitable business model, I suspect --- just an ambitious one!)<br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table>            <div id="_origMsg_">
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                            David Nereson &lt;da88ve@gmail.com&gt;;                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">    Cute.  I&#39;ve tuned many old uprights in many a Sunday School basement that looked like they were &quot;decorated&quot; / &quot;antiked&quot; / &quot;refurbished&quot; / &quot;redone&quot; by the same person or committee, using pea soup green, avocado green, Navy blue, sky blue, yellow, with flower stickers meant for little girl&#39;s bedrooms or maybe bathtub bottoms, even glitter.  There was one we called the &quot;Jackson Pollock&quot; piano.  You can imagine how it looked.  <br>
    Then of course there are the &quot;chopped&quot; uprights with the mirrors, and which have had the toe blocks cut short, the front legs removed, and spinet or console legs installed instead, usually inadequately, making the piano precarious since those legs almost always bend or break when the piano is moved.<br>
    In a similar category are the pianos that have been painted with zebra stripes, polka dots, etc., now a popular fad on the junker pianos installed at downtown malls so that shoppers and kids can murder &quot;Fuer Elise&quot; and &quot;Heart and Soul&quot; for the umpteenth time.  And don&#39;t forget the baby grands in bars that have been outfitted with a plexiglas top and bar padding and stools around the edges.  And, unbelievably, wasn&#39;t it Bechstein or Bluethner or Schimmel or some other high-end brand that made a music desk which included a cup holder and ashtray?  <br>
----David Nereson, RPT  <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Marshall Gisondi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:pianotune05@hotmail.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">pianotune05@hotmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<font face="Arial" size="3">Hi Everone,</font><br><font face="Arial" size="3">Here&#39;s something you don&#39;t see too often.  I found this on craigslist. It&#39;s a player piano.  I cracked up when I saw it.  Sorry if the picture is hge. I cannot figure out how to resize it.</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="3">Marshall</font><br><font face="Arial" size="3"><img alt="" src="http://images.craigslist.org/3G23m43od5F65He5S1d1147517f5113bc18ef.jpg" height="321" width="437"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<i><font face="Arial" size="3">Marshall Gisondi</font></i><br><i><font face="Arial" size="3">MARSHALL&#39;S PIANO SERVICE</font></i><br><i><font face="Arial" size="3">215-510-9400</font></i><br><i><font face="Arial" size="3"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.phillytuner.com">http://www.phillytuner.com</a> </font></i><br>
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