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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101110/99a1fe6c/attachment.htm>
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