Well I expect Larry didn't like having his comment taken some out of context either. If you had looked in the issue of Piano Buyer (Spring, 2012) that Larry was selling at the convention you'd have found the 14-page article on Upright Cabinet Styles in American Piano Manufacturing, 1880 - 1930 by Martha Taylor (Immortal Piano, Portland, Oregon). He has also placed feature articles in Piano Buyer about grand piano rebuilding in earlier issues. He tries, as much as possible, to present both perspectives. But the bottom line is all this is that this market decision is not being made by Larry Fine, myself (full disclosure-I'm the mostly non-paid Technical Consultant for Piano Buyer) or by any of us on Pianotech. It's being made out there in the marketplace. And, yes, I'm disappointed when an owner of a beautiful old upright or grand decides to dump it and go for a shiny new something or other. But the market reality is that fewer and fewer of those old things can be rebuilt for the cost of a new piano of equal or better performance. This is especially true with grands. It's tough to completely and competently rebuild and refinish a small grand piano for the cost of a fairly nice new one. One can hope that the best of the old ones can be preserved-I to cringe when I see the picture of that old Knabe being dumped-but the truth is that a good many of those old pianos are just that; old. Except for their size they don't have much else going for them. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 6939 Foothill Court SW, Olympia, Washington 98512 USA Phone 360.515.0119 - Cell 360.388.6525 <mailto:del at fandrichpiano.com> del at fandrichpiano.com - <mailto:ddfandrich at gmail.com> ddfandrich at gmail.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul Williams Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 7:07 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] NY times article on Pianos I didn't appreciate Larry Fine's quote..and to think he was selling his stuff at the PTG Conference! Paul From: David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> Reply-To: "pianotech at ptg.org" <pianotech at ptg.org> Date: Monday, July 30, 2012 8:49 AM To: "pianotech at ptg.org" <pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: [pianotech] NY times article on Pianos FYI David Love www.davidlovepianos.com http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/arts/music/for-more-pianos-last-note-is-th ud-in-the-dump.html?pagewanted=1 <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/arts/music/for-more-pianos-last-note-is-t hud-in-the-dump.html?pagewanted=1&hpw> &hpw -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120730/32b8be73/attachment.htm>
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