<div dir="ltr">Hmmm, I've found some info on Faust-Harrison... they LOOK legit. I'm curious why they may have taken a month to initially get back to John (my customer, who should have long since made up his mind, but hadn't!!)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello Dale, <div><br><div>I'm still going around and around with my client (John) and Bob Friedman. Bob has made what I feel is an extremely generous offer, based on John's hard-core attitude and complete utter lack of understanding what a "good" piano is. (Hint: it ain't this one!)</div>
<div><br></div><div>So now, after much ado with me in the middle, John called just now and claims he's contacted Faust-Harrison Pianos in NYC. He claims that FHP has made an offer 20% higher than Bob's. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I have never heard of FHP. Have you? Do you have an opinion of them? I stand to make some cash if I channel it through Bob, and nothing if John sells it directly to FHP.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Thanks! (If you haven't heard of them, I plan to post a similar query to pianotech.)</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Paul Bruesch</div><div>Stillwater, MN</div></font></span><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Dale Erwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erwinspiano@aol.com" target="_blank">erwinspiano@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> 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">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"> 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">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"> 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"> Bob Friedmans is a stand up guy with his finger on the pulse nationwide. Call him<br>
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Subject: [pianotech] Rebuildable S&S B<br>
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<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.
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<div>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>
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<div>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>
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<div>Thanks!<br>
Paul Bruesch<br>
Stillwater, MN</div>
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