> Meanwhile in America,
>
> For More Pianos, Last Note Is Thud in the Dump
Jeez, we got our first piano just last year, a Mason & Risch upright.
Due to poor planning, it cost 3 times as much to get it moved as to
buy it. The previous owner asked around and was told the it had no
value or, at best was worth $200 so he asked us for $200.
After we committed to buying it but before it was delivered, a net
search revealed that the company had been one of the two best piano
makers in Canada from the 1890s to around 1950 when they were borged
by a US firm. Piano tuners alluded to their pianos made after that
as "nice furniture". We were then apprehensive that we'd bought a
massive boat anchor.
Upon delivery, a search of the serial number revealed that our piano
was made late in the 1890s. It appears to have had professional
restoration at some point and is just wonderful. Not, I think, in
concert tune but very nice for a couple of musical amateurs to noodle
around on.
Trashing a real piano (unless, perhaps, it one of the "nice furniture"
grade) horrifies me. I even cringed at trashing an upright that
someone had stored with me, one with a wooden harp that had twisted
visibly out of shape with no possibility of repair.
Same fate is befalling reed organs as well.
- Mike
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