University Piano Sales RE: Weird Spinet

[Avery Todd]

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Alan,

Do you really expect us to believe that ANY dealer would sell ANY Steinway 
for that kind of price???????? No matter what condition it was in???? :-) 
Somehow, I seriously doubt it! I wish I could find a dealer that stupid!

Avery Todd

At 01:38 PM 1/9/05, you wrote:
>Frank Hennessey, whom many of you know well, tells an interesting story 
>about a customer of his who bought a Steinway grand (M, I think) for $250 
>at a university sale. She called to ask him if he thought it would be a 
>good deal since the piano was "kind of beat up." He told her, of course, 
>that he'd be happy to buy it if she didn't!
>
>Ya never know.
>
>Well, sometimes ya know and ya still make dumb choices. What's up with THAT?
>
>Alan R. Barnard
>Salem, MO
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On 
>Behalf Of Joe Garrett
>Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 12:48 PM
>To: pianotech
>Subject: Weird Spinet
>
>Friday, I had the dubious honor of "tuning" a 1939 "Musette". Sheesh! It 
>was parallel stung w/a single bridge/giant hockey stick, (you could hit 
>the puck from anywhere on the ice!). More bi-chord wound stings than I 
>wanted to count! Harmonics----nothing matched! Real fun, to say the least. 
>The poor owner had bought it at a "University Sale", for $2,000! (Gawd, I 
>hate those sales!...even more now!) The odd thing was that the piano was 
>constructed very well. Nice Ivory, action was nice, throughout. Played 
>nice, just sounded like crap! The whole thing closed up like a square 
>grand. I hope this was the only one ever made, so that none of you have to 
>try and work on anything like it. BTW, it had a grand lyre, w/only two 
>functioning pedals, (the middle rod was attached to a spring on the 
>underside of the keybed. Lovely! :-(
>I usually relish working on the weird, but not this one!
>Regards,
>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.
>Captain, Tool Police
>Squares R I
>
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