25yr old player piano seeking new home

Robert Goodale rrg@unlv.nevada.edu
Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:15:00 -0700


Little or no value.  The pianos themselves from this era were junk.  Poorly
scaled, cheep actions, every tuning pin pointing in a different direction,
etc.  The players typically had plastic unit valve blocks which were a
profoundly bad design.  Those that had wind motors were made of plastic and
worked rough.  Others had electric drive motors in which the transmissions
were notorious for broken gear teeth.  The tracking systems were poor at
best causing the paper to wander all over the place tearing up the edges.
There are a few around that still work but none of which I'd ever put my
money into.  Dealers can't give them away.  The one I do work for has a half
dozen of them they have been trying to unload for years.  In short, put an
ad in the newspaper and if someone makes a decent offer take their money and
wave bye-bye.

Rob Goodale, RPT
Las Vegas, NV



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