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Alan, <br><br>
Do you really expect us to believe that ANY dealer would sell ANY
Steinway for that kind of price???????? No matter what condition it was
in???? :-) Somehow, I seriously doubt it! I wish I could find a dealer
that stupid! <br><br>
Avery Todd<br><br>
At 01:38 PM 1/9/05, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font face="arial">Frank
Hennessey, whom many of you know well, tells an interesting story about a
customer of his who bought a Steinway grand (M, I think) for $250 at a
university sale. She called to ask him if he thought it would be a good
deal since the piano was "kind of beat up." He told her, of
course, that he'd be happy to buy it if she didn't!<br>
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<font face="arial">Ya never know.<br>
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<font face="arial">Well, sometimes ya know and ya still make dumb
choices. What's up with THAT? <br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Alan R. Barnard<br>
Salem, MO<br>
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mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a>] On Behalf Of </b>Joe Garrett<br>
<dd>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 09, 2005 12:48 PM<br>
<dd>To:</b> pianotech<br>
<dd>Subject:</b> Weird Spinet<br><br>
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<dd><font face="arial" size=2>Friday, I had the dubious honor of
"tuning" a 1939 "Musette". Sheesh! It was parallel
stung w/a single bridge/giant hockey stick, (you could hit the puck from
anywhere on the ice!). More bi-chord wound stings than I wanted to count!
Harmonics----nothing matched! Real fun, to say the least. The poor owner
had bought it at a "University Sale", for $2,000! (Gawd, I hate
those sales!...even more now!) The odd thing was that the piano was
constructed very well. Nice Ivory, action was nice, throughout. Played
nice, just sounded like crap! The whole thing closed up like a square
grand. I hope this was the only one ever made, so that none of you have
to try and work on anything like it. BTW, it had a grand lyre, w/only two
functioning pedals, (the middle rod was attached to a spring on the
underside of the keybed. Lovely! :-(</font><br>
<dd><font face="arial" size=2>I usually relish working on the weird, but
not this one!<br>
<dd>Regards,<br>
<dd>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<br>
<dd>Captain, Tool Police<br>
<dd>Squares R I<br>
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