This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Looked at an old upright in a church social hall today. The fallboard = name is "The Oliver" and the Plate says "Oliver ... Chicago Ill. & = Huntington, Ind.=20 I tune their chapel piano and they wanted my advice. My advice will be = ".. .off the nearest cliff" But they were really interested in knowing = its age. Pierce is not clear ... two listings for "Oliver." Anyone? The serial number is 21719. Would it be a Schaff Bros. = (Wurlitzer) serial number? That would make it 1905 and it certainly = could be that old. Base strings are steel or nickel-wound, definitely not brass. When was = steel used? Might they be original or a 60-year-old re-string? Man, talk = about some dead bass strings, we are talking about Zither-Zombies, here = (not a bridge problem either).=20 Thanks,=20 Alan Barnard Stumped in Salem, MO ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/4f/b4/5a/b1/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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