[pianotech] Rebuildable S&S B

[Dale Erwin]

Hi Paul
 The value is really determined by what the cost of a total restoration would be. A 1929 B rode hard and put away wet, as you put it, is most likely going to need 
everything including a new key set. So if the restoration cost are for example 35K to 40 K the question remains.....what can it be sold for after work?
Many shops across the country are finding it difficult to recoup 50K for even the most fastidiously restored Bs. In my opinion that's a tragedy but it is what it is.
 In my opinion the piano presently is perhaps worth 7 to 12 K depending on condition.
 Bob Friedmans is a stand up guy with his finger on the pulse nationwide. Call him


Dale Erwin R.P.T.
Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.
 Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S. pianos
www.Erwinspiano.com
Phone: 209-577-8397

 
  





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From: paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thu, Jan 3, 2013 7:12 pm
Subject: [pianotech] Rebuildable S&S B


I have a customer with a 1929 S&S (NY) B. It's been in a supper club for many years, been rode hard and put up wet. Customer says the action is from another B which was in even worse condition. This action is verdigris'd, although I did very successfully use the brake parts cleaner trick on it. 


Customer has a second S&S B from 1968. It has also been in the supper club for years, but it is in overall much better condition.


He called me recently to ask if I thought he could sell one or the other of them. I suspect he's having cash flow issues, but I didn't ask. I suggested he should sell the 1929 model - because then he'd still have a piano in the place! He wanted me to suggest an asking price. I declined, but mentioned something I'd read here a few years back about a rebuilding carcass going for ca $1000 per foot. I don't recall if that was before or during the plantetary economic slump... does that rule of thumb still apply? Or is it regional, like a better-playing instrument?


Thanks!
Paul Bruesch
Stillwater, MN

 

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