This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Background: Tuned a small upright (large console?) today for a new customer. What a = sweet little piano! The unisons just fell into place and there is no = cheap-piano whininess even in the longest plain-wires. Someone obviously = installed new hammers and did other work to the piano in recent = years.Very nice Walnut veneer and finish. I'm going to put on new keytops and that is really all this piano = needs, except maybe for new wound strings. Can't tell you the make, there was no name on the plate, no tag on the = back, and if there was a fallboard decal, it must have been removed when = it was refinished. Question: Does this piano sound familiar to anyone??? Clues: The plate has no bolts or regular slot/Philips screws. It has screws of = abut the usual size, each with a square hole in the center, about 3/16" = on each side. It has two pedals only. It has a mechanism to angle out the music desk when the fallboard is = folded up (another clue) but rather than just a metal rod doing the = pushing, there is a very nice (looks like oak) wooden bar across the = whole face of the action--about halfway between the hammers and the = backchecks in its vertical position. The whole bar pushes out and firmly = holds the music desk. Very nice. Lid is full-size, not the old half-fold upright type. If I had to guess, with my limited exposure to pianos, I'd guess this is = a 50's piano--partly because it reminds me of the Janssen players of = that era--NOT NOT NOT in quality, but in it's general size and shape. = But I really don't know. It was never a player, by the way. Not at all = ornate, just nice wood. In height, about like a Hamilton studio. General = shapes are squared, nothing rounded except a slight sculpting of the = legs (which sit on nice sturdy toe blocks) not quite a "spade foot" look = but kinda like. The serial number is 26358 THE CUSTOMER BOUGHT IT A YEAR AGO IN VIRGINIA -- $200. Anyone? Alan Barnard Mystified in Salem, MO ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/80/25/04/f0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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