Rob With new strings and a new action, yes, you might be able to get $1000 for it. If it's worth to you to do all that work, and spend all that money, go for it. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Rob McCall <rob at mccallpiano.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Fri, Aug 14, 2009 8:31 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Lighte & Co. upright - help needed Wim, Mahalo nui loa!? I had a feeling that might be the case, but I don't have a lot of experience with this era of pianos (yet!). If I rebuilt the thing -- action, new strings, etc., ?primarily for the experience, it would be worth what? ?$1,000? ?I guess it might be a good rental, perhaps... Regards, Rob On Aug 14, 2009, at 23:22 , wimblees at aol.com wrote: Rob ? This looks like a run of the mill early 1900's piano. You're going to have to pull it to pitch, replace the bridle straps and the missing bass dampers. When you've done that, it will be worth about $500, but you'll probably have to move it to?the new?customer's house. If you do you're own moving, you can actually make a few bucks. If you have to pay someone to move the piano, you might be able to break even if you gave the customer $100.? Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of:? The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090815/0a560b19/attachment.htm>
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