<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <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 cite="mid:mailman.5696.1362098156.4133.pianotech@ptg.org" type="cite"><font size="2" color="black" 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> </body> </html>