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I do not have the original receipt with a price. There is a sheet of paper glued to the inside of the key cover which gives the delivery information. The seller was A. J. Beard, Professor of Music, Tean, Stoke-On-Trent. It would have been interesting to see the original price. The number on the soun...

Thank you for your reply. Our piano, I have found, is 124 years old today, having been sold to the previous owner's uncle on 25 November, 1880, in Stoke-On-Trent. The action is made by Morgenstern & Kotrade of Leipzig. I have been trying to clean it up a bit. On this one the action comes out as ...

We have just acquired an Ascherberg piano. Three rebuilders and piano tuners have advised it is not worth the money to rebuild it, as it has the birdcage action. Does anyone with an Ascherberg have any thoughts on this? I understand that some overdamper pianos are better than others, and wonder wher...