Franklin was on the low end of the American Piano Company line ( Mason&Hamlin, Knabe, Chickering, Haines, Fischer, Marshall & Wendell, Frankiln ), and if its from the 20's ( before the American-Aeolian merger in 1930 ) parts from these other makes, especialy the smaller, lesser ones, might be interchangeable. Gordon Stelter --- Richard Wells <frontrowaudio@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello all: > > I have gotten into an unfortunate predicament that I > hope someone out there > can help with. A few years ago I bought a Franklin > baby grand piano in very > rough condition. I don't make a lot of money so I > viewed this as the only > opportunity I'd have to ever own a baby grand. > > I sent the action to a piano tech by the name of > David Wallace from Bethany > Oklahoma. The plan was I would pay him a little at > a time and he would > rebuild it in his spare time. I continued > refinishing the rest of it in > the meantime. > > After a couple of years I had paid him all but the > last $75.00. When I > tried to contact him with the final payment, I found > he had moved and taken > my action with him. The only information I've been > able to find is that he > may have moved to Colorado. > > So, that brings me to my questions to you; Is there > anyone out there who > might know David? > Does anyone happen to have parts that might fit my > piano? Is there anything > I can do with my piano or is it now just firewood? > > Thank you for you time. > Richard Wells > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months > FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
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