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1-For Johnkie Thanks a lot for the understanding and encouragement-greatly appreciated.. 2-For Bill Very grateful for your last post-I think you've placed the matter in its correct perspective- the last three lines in particular demonstrate profound thinking with which I whole-heartedly agree. Very ...

I'd never dream of causing embarassment to anybody-Bill in particular. No doubt good modern pianos are in every respect much much better-but one can not be denied an "escape"to romanticism through the rich sound these old pianos produce---after all they are a substantial part of piano hist...

Sorry,but I do not think one should agree with the latest MarkGoodwinPianos post--the truth is our ears have been so much accustomed to the crisper sound of the modern piano that we are sometimes put off by the less effective dampimg of even a very good old overdamped piano. However, if we realize t...

Szczecin label pianos Wolkenhauer.doc[/attachment] - I am trying to send you Google,s bad translation as an attachment-you may try to open it using Microsoft WORD..
Regards
rodney

Dear Bill I am re-posting the full link- hope it works this time By the way, the tuner\technician has progressed about 80% on its tuning and adjustments-it is already sounding great,having a strong and beautiful sound... Link: http://muzyka.onet.pl/10180,1340147,wywiady.html?drukuj=1 Regards rodney

To all those interested in this firm may I suggest to look at a Polish (Stettin belonged to Germany and was ceded to Poland in 1945, now called Szczecin) site - I of course do not know any Polish- but even so I found a lot of information in Google's rather bad English translation : http://muzyka.one...

Thanks ,Bill,for your response--please feel free to discontinue the search as I shall not be buying that piano. The reasons are a) there was rust on the strings to a worrying extent and b)-and most important- the soundboard had been clumsily repaired sometime in the past as on three of its corners t...

Coming back to this particular upright-the detailed examination by the specialist tuner\technician today resulted in the following findings: --On the top right corner of the metal frame is inscribed" D.R.Patent 45535 " --On the top left corner the number 8055 is stamped in bold black ink -...

Many thanks to both Bill Kibby and Colin Nicholson--within the next few days I'll have the piano thoroughly checked by my trusted and experienced piano tuner\technician who is servicing my 1989 Schimmel-made PLEYEL (and keping it in pristine condition)---see what he can find out and will let you kno...

Any history about this firm, please ? The firm, of Giessen,Germany seems to have had a good reputation in the late 1850s, but I can not find a)when was it established b)when did it close down c)any serial numbers I am contemplating an-apparently-1920s or 1930s upright which produces a nice strong so...