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Thanks for all your advice Colin and MDW. It will be sad to have to break up the piano but we have to do this as we need to clear the house it is in! We already have a piano (Knight) in good working order in our own home so wouldn't be looking for part exchange. We asked a reputable piano tuner (Wel...

Sadly, I have to scrap a piano -the piano tuner has found that the sound board is cracked and it is beyond economic repair. The mahogany panels may be of interest to a friend who does wood work and the ivory (pre war piano) on the keys may be of interest to the piano tuner. The metal (it is a Welmar...

Thanks for your replies. I've since been away on holiday and I'm still pondering what to do!

We own a Knight upright piano - I think it is the smaller more basic model and that it dates from around 1968 (the number is 44851) though we purchased it secondhand and hardly used in the mid-80s. This piano is in good condition. We've recently inherited a 1930s Welmar upright overstrung piano (num...