<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV> <FONT size=3> Daniel</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>   Tokiwa makes a wide range of fine parts for= many old upright. Forget scavenging. The potential tone production of the  piano, is for me, the deal breaker of to rebuild or not. If it sings wi= th the old parts then  the sound simply gets better with new parts. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  Honestly if an old upright has a great singing bo= ard, I'll take that piano in rebuilt condition over almost any new upright out there  today, that by in large has a clangy raspy thin sound, either vi= a it's smaller size or petrified felt hammers.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  We've rebuilt some beauties this year for musicia= ns who state they don't play on pianos this good out in the world!!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  Dale Erwin</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>Hi All<BR><BR>I looked over an old Henry F. Miller full upright a few days ag= o and the <BR>owner would like to have it restored. Serial #39226 (1910). He= just doesn't <BR>want to pay a few thousand dollars to do it. He wanted to= know how available <BR>the parts might be, even from other old HFM upright= s. I told him I'd check, <BR>but I didn't think that would be very successful o= r cost effective to try <BR>that route. But he wanted me to ask anyway, so i= f anyone knows of any full <BR>actions from that same period that he might b= e able to purchase and salvage <BR>parts from let me know.<BR><BR>Thanks<BR>Daniel Carlton<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>