This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Okay, let's start again.=20 =20 NOT a dealer, a UNIVERSITY. =20 Such a deal would be pretty incredible (and a nice thing to happen to = any of us) but that's why I mentioned it! =20 I told the story as it was related to me by Frank Hennessey--tuner since 1957, PTG member for many years, retailer for 30+ years / topnotch = rebuilder / outstanding piano tech and voicer from Columbia, MO. If you find it incredible, take the issue up with him, okay? =20 But Frank is a nice guy; honest, I believe, and not prone to making up tales. Inquire of him, if you care too. But please, Avery, don't jump = down his throat like you did mine. Your post seemed a wee bit accusatory and kinda snotty. (Hope that was not your intent) You did put a smiley face after the rant so I'll just chalk it up to a momentary bit of internet highway road rage and think nice thoughts about you and all of my colleagues. =20 Alan R. Barnard Salem, MO -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On = Behalf Of Avery Todd Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 5:36 PM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: University Piano Sales RE: Weird Spinet Alan,=20 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! =20 Ya never know. =20 Well, sometimes ya know and ya still make dumb choices. What's up with = THAT? =20 Alan R. Barnard Salem, MO -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [HYPERLINK "mailto: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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 01/06/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 01/06/2005 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 01/06/2005 --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 01/06/2005 =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f5/54/2c/e9/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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