<HTML>In a message dated 9/5/01 6:56:37 AM Central Daylight Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I have yet to junk my first piano (although I have told many clients to junk theirs!). This is quickly becoming a traumatic experience for me. Will the piano goddess forgive/understand me if I disassemble this old beauty with a sledge hammer? I would at least hang the plate on my shop wall! Would anyone (with a clear conscience) recommend that I keep and rebuild this piano (that is, am I doing the right thing?)? </BLOCKQUOTE> Terry While I appreciate your dilemma, and I would be the first to tell you to junk the thing, (more on that later), but you have to do what you think is best. What does your gut instinct tell you? Take the emotional out of the picture, and treat yourself like a customer. Ask yourself, if this was a customer's piano, what would you recommend. As I have stated many times on the list, for the most part, uprights that are approaching, or are beyond 75 years, are nothing more than a piece of furniture on which to put pictures, weights a ton, and takes up 15 square feet of floor space. If you have spare time to waste, and have the extra money to throw away, then maybe you can rebuild the thing. Bottom line, take your own advice. Willem</HTML>