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Thanks Bill. Will pass on to my daughter.

Oh well ... maybe I should start looking at it as a collection of recyclable parts. All this had come up because I am about to move house & downsize. We have 3 pianos and 2 small organs. Maybe the Cadby would in the long run be happier being reincarnated as ear-rings and small pieces of furnitur...

Thank you Bill. Doesn't sound from your reply that there would be a lot of point in trying to restore it?? In Australia to my understanding, what we refer to as the frame is that part of the interior across which the strings are attached and tensioned. In modern pianos this is made of metal. Apparen...

There are a couple of dates with possible signatures (illegible), which are well hidden and seem to be tuners' records. One seems to say 'KEN Oct 1 1926'. The other seems to say 'J E Hart(xxx)st Oct 1 '08 Mr Fox Albert st Gr(x)a?n(xx)'. The timber is very light, fine and compact grained, and looks s...

I too have a Charles Cadby upright piano that we bought 45 years ago for $30 - just because it had a beautiful case - I think rosewood. We were told at the time that its frame was wood and warped, so it was not worth restoring. We had the same information from a tuner recently. I nevertheless had a ...