[pianotech] green piano with bass bridge problem

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

It IS amazing what holds up.  Just yesterday I did a 38¢ raise on a Westbrook (a.k.a.Currier). Almost sounded like a piano when I was done. Tight pins and the only thing that had fallen off was a keyfront.

Conrad


From: tomtuner at verizon.net
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:34:33 -0500
Subject: Re: [pianotech] green piano with bass bridge problem










 

  Subject: Re: [pianotech] green piano with 
  bass bridge problem
  

  When I was at WITCC, ('77/'78) there was a truckload sale of "Grand" 
  pianos at a local hotel.  
I think the "grand" moniker came from the 
  price tag...

Conrad Hoffsommer

Conrad,
    I saw the same sales model in Florida in the 
  1970's. They would show up in small towns at the local shopping center with a 
  tractor trailer full of these things ,a big tent ,some smaller delivery trucks 
  and advertise on the local radio station.
  A  third party financing company approved credit on 
  the spot and later that day you had a brand new piano with a moth proofed 
  action , a genuine luan mahogany sounding panel and real copper bass strings 
  for around $900.00.
    Here in Massachusetts I see a few each year that 
  surprisingly have yet to fall apart. Typically however  the back assembly 
  fails with the top of the posts warping along with glue joint failures galore 
  and 
  the legs tend to fall off if you stare at them for more 
  than a few minutes. 
  If I remember the parent company was Marantz or Kincaid. 
  These things made the worst of the Aeolian's look good!
  Tom D.

 		 	   		  
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