Old uprights worth saving?

[gordon stelter]

We have gotten $10,000-$12,000 for top-notch restored
uprights in the Atlanta market ( without new
soundboards ).  The thing to do is have the customer
compare them with a new piano of the same price. The
ornate case and resonant tone of the oldies usually
beats out the new stuff. But the newer pianos are
usualy LOT cleaner on the inside, unless great effort
is made to attend to this, which is why I have come up
with so many techniques to make old pianos odor-free
and sanitary. I don't want to face God and answer for
giving someone's 5 year old daughter, forced to
practice, a disease from the residues in an old piano.
     Thump


--- Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> I strongly suspect that may depend quite a bit on
> how one defines
> "restored/remanufactured".
> 
> Terry Farrell
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cy Shuster" <741662027@theshusters.org>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 5:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Old uprights worth saving?
> 
> 
> > In Minnesota, the store couldn't get more than
> $2,000 for one -- even a
> big
> > Bush & Lane.
> >
> > --Cy Shuster--
> > Bluefield, WV
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Keith McGavern" <kam544@gbronline.com>
> > To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: Old uprights worth saving?
> >
> >
> > > At 8:40 PM -0400 7/9/04, Clyde Hollinger wrote:
> > > >... Has anyone tried to see if there might
> actually be a market for
> > > >restored/remanufactured old uprights? ...
> >
> >
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