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[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi,
Any one living in Japan on this list please contact me at the address below.
TIA
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Dierauf" <mark@nhpianos.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 9:25 AM
Subject: RE: Old uprights worth saving?


>   Virtually all of the old uprights that I run across up here (and there
> are a lot of 'em) have boards which have collapsed in the area of the
> mid-treble break where the bridge was almost always notched for
> clearance for the plate strut. The sustain usually seems to drop way off
> here, sometimes to the point where you'd almost suspect that the dampers
> weren't even lifting. For this reason, I've come to the conclusion that
> without a new board these aren't pianos that I'd feel comfortable
> selling for real money and with a new board the price would be
> prohibitive.
>   I used to wonder if it would be possible, or rather profitable, to pop
> the sides and other case parts off these once wonderful instruments,
> refinish them and glue them onto new backs, saving only the action
> frames & rails, keybed/boards, plates, and hardware. The bellies could
> be modernized in the process. While I might be persuaded that there is a
> limited market for that kind of thing, I wouldn't want to try it outside
> of a large metropolitan area. As a pianist, I'd sure rather have a
> 54"-56" upright in truly "new" condition than almost anything short of a
> 6' high quality grand.
>
> - Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gordon stelter [mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 4:36 PM
> To: Pianotech
> 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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