<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Background:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tuned a small upright (large console?) = today for a new customer. What a sweet little piano! The unisons just fell into = place and there is no cheap-piano whininess even in the longest plain-wires. = Someone obviously installed new hammers and did other work to the piano in = recent years.Very nice Walnut veneer and finish.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I'm going to put on new keytops = and that is really all this piano needs, except maybe for new wound = strings.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can't tell you the make, there was no = name on the plate, no tag on the back, and if there was a fallboard decal, it must = have been removed when it was refinished.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Question:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does this piano sound familiar to anyone???</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Clues:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The plate has no bolts or regular = slot/Philips screws. It has screws of abut the usual size, each with a  square = hole in the center, about 3/16" on each side.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It has two pedals only.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It has a mechanism to angle out the = music desk when the fallboard is folded up (another clue) but rather than just a metal = rod doing the pushing, there is a very nice (looks like oak) wooden bar across the = whole face of the action--about halfway between the hammers and the backchecks = in its vertical position. The whole bar pushes out and firmly = holds the music desk. Very nice.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lid is full-size, not the old half-fold = upright type.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I had to guess, with my limited = exposure to pianos, I'd guess this is a 50's piano--partly because it reminds me of = the Janssen players of that era--NOT NOT NOT in quality, but in it's general = size and shape. But I really don't know. It was never a player, by the way. =  Not at all ornate, just nice wood. In height, about like a Hamilton studio. = General shapes are squared, nothing rounded except a slight sculpting of the = legs (which sit on nice sturdy toe blocks) not quite a "spade foot" look but kinda like.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The serial number is 26358</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <FONT face=Arial size=2>THE CUSTOMER BOUGHT IT A YEAR AGO = IN  VIRGINIA -- $200.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan Barnard</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mystified in Salem, = MO</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>