I kind of have my doubts about that. It is painfully obvious that this piano is not 112 years old. I think they are just hoping some idiot will come along and believe it. Even if it was that old, as we all know old pianos are not wine. They do not improve with age, they get deteriorate until they are rebuilt, (assuming they are worth it). I've never seen a Steinway upright I liked. The good news is that they are only asking $800 for it which may be an appropriate price for a dumpy Steinway of this type so whoever gets ripped off wouldn't too badly burned. Of course this is assuming that it's tunable. There are a lot of pianos in our 12% Las Vegas humidity that have little or no pin torque. Rob ----- Original Message ----- It's not fraud they are just ignorant. The "registered in 1878" it taken right off the plate, as you can see from the photo on the ad. So that's where they got that. Go by the serial number. Maybe you can write them a correction on the date going by serial number. This info is available from Steinway's website. I would not call the police!~~~duh....maybe that's how they do it in Hawaii. Richard Adkins Coe College >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>snip<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:04:22 -0400 From: wimblees at aol.com Subject: Re: [CAUT] How do you spell fraud? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090424/934628c8/attachment.html>
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