<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>Sounds "home made". I saw a  book once from the early 1900&#39;s with plans for building your own piano. <br />My guess is that it will never, no matter how much work is put into it, sound as good as a Mason.<br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table>            <div id="_origMsg_">
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                            Terry Farrell &lt;mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com&gt;;                            <br>
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                            Re: [pianotech] L.W. Foster Piano?                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">Pictures?!?!?!?!?<div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 4, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Rex Roseman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="Section1" style=""><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Tuned a piano the other day and am trying to get some information about its history. There was no name on the piano in the usual places or methods but
 it had what looked like a tuning sticker as follows:</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">L.W. Foster</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Piano Tuner and Maker</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
 style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">1915 Washington Blvd.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Chicago</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">IL</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Phone Seely 268</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"
 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">The serial number was 1558 and there was what looked like a tuning date of<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">5-26-13</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
 style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">.</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">It is a full upright and is straight strung with double unisons through out (with the exception of the usual low bass). None of the books that I have were of any help and I am not even sure that Foster is the maker. Any information would be welcome.</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
 style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Thank you.</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Rex Roseman</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="3" face="Times New
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