Old uprights worth saving?

[Farrell]

My opinion on whether old uprights are worth saving is - musically,
absolutely - but financially, I just don't know, and actually, am a bit
pessimistic about that - but I've never sold one.

I have little doubt that a high-end vertical is not easy to sell for high
$$. How did you advertise and how long were they on the market before sale?
Oh, and BTW, did they say "Steinway & Sons" on the fallboard? Thanks.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Old uprights worth saving?


> 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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