[CAUT] Rebuilding Value

[Ron Nossaman]

> I have been contacted with regard to the following matter:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/n6rzu
> 
> The Steinway in question is a Model O.
> 
> I was asked for a statement concerning the viability of rebuilding. I  
> thought if anyone here had anything to say on the matter, I might  
> include some of your responses in a letter I am sending to be used at  
> an upcoming school board meeting.
> 
> 
> Thanks.   Sometimes it's OK to get "up in arms."    8^)
> 
> 
> Kent


This is the infinitely recurring mantra of the Great "Circle 
of Noise".

Rebuilding with non-Steinway parts won't make it more valuable 
than what - the current trade-in value? Sheep dip. I also 
can't help but wonder what former grandeur that piano might 
have originally possessed that a competent rebuilder couldn't 
invoke at least as well as did the builders, and wholly 
without Steinway ordination. Are they more interested in cost 
effective performance, or maintaining what amounts to racial 
purity? I think someone needs to start thinking with their 
heads instead of their glands about what "It's no longer a 
Steinway" really means.


Reminds me of the decal on an old Jenkins Music product saying 
"Genuine Elburn".

Ron N