bosendorfer imperial pianos

[Clyde Hollinger]

Stephen,

Do you intend to remanufacture the piano yourself?  I have seen your name
appearing here only recently, so I do not know how much experience you have in
this area.

If you have no experience in rebuilding, I would recommend getting the
experience on pianos of much lesser value.  Learn your lessons and make your
mistakes on those.  In my mind there is a certain responsibility all rebuilders
have to make sure that only topnotch work is done on high value pianos.
Observing poor craftsmanship is always depressing, but much more so if the
piano was once a fine instrument.

I do not rebuild pianos, but I've given it consideration.  I would probably
start with the cheapest grand I could find, as long as it was at least worth
the trouble.

Regards,
Clyde Hollinger, RPT

Stephen Airy wrote:

> When I'm ready to get one, where can I get a free (or almost) Bosendorfer
> Imperial concert grand?  I don't care if all the keytops (i wanna say
> ivories :) have fallen off , the felt is completely worn from ALL the
> hammers, and the piano is so far flat that the strings are falling out of
> the tuning pins, I was wondering what the cheapest I could get one
> is?  (for example 1981, or early 1970s).  Or, has anyone heard about Petrof
> having a piano with extra keys in the bass?  I saw an ad on pianomart.com
> for a petrof concert grand that they said had the same extra keys in the
> bass as Bosendorfer, but, sadly, the ad at
> http://www.pianomart.com/Petrof/petrof5.htm is about $29,000 out of my
> price range, and right now I would need to sacrifice 9'3" or 9'6" too much
> room in the living room.  :(  I would also be interested in info on the
> Stuart & Sons Australian piano (upright preferred -- personal preference)
> (it has extra keys in the treble) but I don't even want to think about the
> price tag on those considering what I know about them!
>
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