My sister owned a Beckwith upright back in the 60's while it was still only about 40 years old. It was always a pleasure to play it as a teen. It had a full rich tone, and wonderful action. She left it with a house, because they had had to remove door facing to get it into the room, and bought a new console soon after. At the time, I thought it was one of the best uprights I had played. FWIW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ray T. Bentley, RPT Alton, IL ray@bentley.net www.ray.bentley.net The difficult, I do right away. The impossible takes a little longer. > From: Tvak@AOL.COM > Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org > Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:25:18 EDT > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: Beckwith > > > In a message dated 5/23/02 1:34:01 PM, macman@pathfinder.dnsalias.com writes: > > << What do you guys think about the Sears, Roebuck, & Co "My name sounds > like Bechstein" Beckwith piano >> > > Though I'm not familiar with older Beckwiths, last year I was given a > Beckwith spinet, which I regulated and later sold. This piano, not listed > in Pierce, I guess-timate was made in the 40s, maybe 50s. I expected the > worst. After all, it looked just like a Winter, Kimball, or Gulbransen > spinet. But I found that this little piano had quite a pleasing tone and a > suprisingly full bass. Really not bad for a spinet. And made by Sears! > Whodathunk? > > I sold it to a guy who was buying it for his 90 year old mother for > Christmas. I told him that I included a free tuning with the sale. He told > me he wasn't interested because his mother was practically deaf. > > Tom Sivak >
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