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Wow, cool piano! Too bad it is in such bad shape. In general
I would recommend burning such a piano, however the bell feature tells
me that this is a very rare bird and should have some significant collector
value, easily justifying a complete and proper restoration.
<p>I am not familiar with the brand, it sounds pretty obscure. It
does sound a lot like a "Wing & Son" however. Wing used to have
a lot of "noise maker" features and the pianos themselves were of excellent
quality. Most Wings had several extra pedals to activate/engage the
other mechanisms. I've come across only two of them, one that was
abused and then destroyed by an ignorant so-called "piana rebildur" and
the other one was here in town at another shop owned by a dealer that recently
cleaned out the place for the first time in twenty years. I asked
them to save it and I'd come back later and take it off their hands for
them. I never heard or saw it again and that was a year ago.
I suspect they dumped it but they may have realized they had something
sort of special and hid it again behind the heaps of junk they didn't throw
out.
<p>Anyway, keep us updated, this sounds interesting.
<p>Rob Goodale, RPT
<br>Las Vegas, NV
<p>Kim Stubblefield wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>however, the
top octave and a half have something interesting....a sostenuto like device
operating off the middle pedal that kicks in an alternate set of wood hammers
which strike a series of bells built in under the keybed to the far right.
the bells are like teacup saucers stacked largest to the left on the horizontal.
this is obviously not a retro-fit.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>a
few of the wood mallets/hammers are broken...client has no money of course
(they live where i do) but want to put it into playing shape.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>ANYBODY
run into one of these before, have any ideas or thoughts?</font></font></blockquote>
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