-----Original Message----- From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Delwin D Fandrich Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 9:22 PM Yes. It is always inappropriate to knowingly put a false name on a 'no-name' piano. Do your work on it and sell it based on the value of your work and on its value as a musical instrument. Del I concur with Del on this one, but admit to one exception in my career. I sold an early 60's kawai console with Kawai cast in the plate . I believe that because of the bias against "made in Japan" that existed in that era Kawai marketed the piano in the United States with a different name on the fallboard. I think it was called a Sonata or something similar. The piano was cleaned and the original Decal damaged so I replaced it with a Kawai decal. Was this a deceptive practice? I think not, as this was truly a Kawai, but this can be a slippery slope especially with all the stencil pianos on the used market. True confessor, Tom Driscoll This was and remains a decent little piano,but I remember having to replace some kind of gooey foam rubber stuff they had used for back rail cloth.
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