<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div><font style="background-color: transparent;" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">David</font></div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks for the update. It did have square pins, but they were 1 ought. And even some of them were stripped.  (The edges had worn off) There are also some pins that are very loose, but in our climate, even loose pins will hold. </div> <div> </div> <div>The customer likes the way the piano plays and sounds, and enjoys playing it.. But he is aware that it is not a very good piano. He did tell me that a couple of years ago a technician had done some repair work to it. Even when I got there the first time some of the damper timing had to be adjusted. </div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks</div> <div> </div> <div>Wim</div> <div></div> <div style="clear: both;"> <div> </div> </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: David Boyce <David@piano.plus.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 2:48 pm<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Birdcage piano for David Boyce<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_1cdd0d65-2154-47bf-8a54-2833396db73b"> <font face="Arial">Thanks Wim.  1880s would seem about right. At least it doesn't seem to have oblong pins, which you sometimes encounter on those old cheap pianos, and which I hate!  It's a spring and loop action I see. In my experience they never feel nice.  I wonder if the owner understands that that piano was a cheap and nasty model even when it was brand new?</font>  <font face="Arial"> In that era there were so many small workshops in England churning out cheap poorly-made pianos for the newly emerging lower middle-class domestic market.  There's not much more to be said about that piano, except that it should probably have been burnt sixty years ago!  But I come across plenty like it.<br> <br> Best regards,<br> <br> David .</font>  <br> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/03/2013 00:35, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pianotech-request@ptg.org">pianotech-request@ptg.org</a> wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <div>David</div> <div> </div> <div>Here is a picture of the insides. I tried sending it the first time, but Pianotech wouldn't let me, because it was too big.</div> <div> </div> <div>Wim</div> </font></blockquote> <br> </div>  </div> </font>