<!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 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Well, do you know the serial number? = Get it, and I'll look it up for you. </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black">From: <A title=frontrowaudio@hotmail.com href="mailto:frontrowaudio@hotmail.com">Richard Wells</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">To: <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 = 5:18 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Subject: Re: Do I have any = options.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>How do I find the year of the piano? >From: gordon stelter <<A = href="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com">lclgcnp@yahoo.com</A>> >Reply-= To: Pianotech <<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>> >To: = Pianotech <<A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>> >Subjec= t: Re: Do I have any options. >Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:53:07 -0800 (PST) > >Franklin was on the low end of the American Piano >Company line ( Mason&Hamlin, Knabe, Chickering, >Haines, Fischer, Marshall & Wendell, Frankiln = ), and >if its from the 20's ( before the = American-Aeolian >merger in 1930 ) parts from these other makes, >especialy the smaller, = lesser ones, might = be >interchangeable. >      Gordon Stelter > >--- Richard Wells <<A = href="mailto:frontrowaudio@hotmail.com">frontrowaudio@hotmail.com</A>&g= t; wrote: > > Hello all: > > > > I have gotten = into an unfortunate predicament that I > > hope someone out = there > > can help with.  A few years ago I bought a Franklin > = > baby grand piano in very > > rough condition.  I don't = make a lot of money so I > > viewed this as the only > > opportunity I'd have to ever own a baby grand. > > > = > I sent the action to a piano tech by the name of > > David = Wallace from Bethany > > Oklahoma.  The plan was I would pay him a = little at > > a time and he would > > rebuild it in his = spare time.   I continued > > refinishing the rest of it in > > the meantime. > > > > After a couple = of years I had paid him all but the > > last $75.00.  When I > > tried to contact him with the final payment, I = found > > he had moved and taken > > my action with = him.   The only information I've been > > able to find is that = he > > may have moved to Colorado. > > > > So, that brings = me to my questions to you; Is there > > anyone out there who > = > might know David? > > Does anyone happen to have parts that = might fit my > > piano?  Is there anything > > I can do = with my piano or is it now just firewood? > > > > Thank you = for you time. > > Richard Wells > > > > > > > > > > > = > >_____________________________________________________________= ____ > > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months > > = FREE* > > <A = href="http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus">http://join.msn.com/?= page=features/virus</A> > > > > = _______________________________________________ > > pianotech list = info: >https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > &gt= ; >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your = site >http://webhosting.yahoo.com >__________________________= _____________________ >pianotech list info: <A = href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">http://www.ptg.org= /mailman/listinfo/pianotech</A> ______________________________= ___________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE*  <A = href="http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail">http://join.msn.co= m/?page=features/junkmail</A> __________________________________= _____________ pianotech list info: <A = href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">http://www.ptg.org= /mailman/listinfo/pianotech</A></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>