Do I have any options.

[Richard Wells]

How do I find the year of the piano?






>From: gordon stelter <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
>To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: Do I have any options.
>Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:53:07 -0800 (PST)
>
>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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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