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For some, the candle holders can be worth more than an old piano!

Go here www.aptta.org.au to find a local tech and have them tell you.

Try witing directly to Grotrian at contact@grotrian.de

of try a printing shop like minuteman, if you can take a digital photo of the the existing logo the font type can be matched and a printing done on foil, sort of fancy lettraset.

After the screwdriver, get the hammer and saw and take a trip to the hardware store

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My 2 cents - from the angles of the photos I can see it has new bass strings and new damper felt (which seem a bit uneven), though the steel strings seem original. Soundboard has at least one repaired split. If you could take out the music desk at provide other photos of the inside. Interesting as l...

Of course you can use the photos.

Before I got there was a nice layer of dust

Hi, yesterday I "experienced" the joys of the Brinsmead patented wrestpins. As Barrie says on the page http://www.uk-piano.org/history/brinsmead.html there were improvements in the design, I think this was one of the latter ones and fortunately the tuning lever was still there. http://laws...

Here are two: BREKNE, RICHARD RPT Address: 5010 BERGEN, NORWAY Phone: 47-55-23-2081 Email: rbrekne@broadpark.no Web: www.pianostemmer.no JANSEN, NILS HENRIK RPT Address: BERGEN, N-5011 NORWAY Phone: 47-55-230692 Email: bergen-piano@online.no Web: bergen-piano.no

Where in Norway are you, I know a couple of piano technicians there who may be able to give you better on the spot information.

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Its not a "piano", it's a keyboard !

That was actually done by a customer of mine, he just went at it with hammer, screwdrivers and chisel and took it to pieces, not the correct way but iin the end he got it done. Fitted the interion with mirror panels and shelves. Those are his cut glass crystal drinks glasses on the shelves.

You could do this with it

My congratulations on behalf of the SAAPPT (whose most of its members are also blind).

Simply put, it would sound worse. You would notice that the hammers are positioned in a straight line (strike line) where they hit the stings. It is a point worked out be the designer to be the optimum point to get the best harmonics from the string. Proportionally where the top hammer hits the shor...

My you have lots of questions :lol: I can give an answer just based on what you say - yes it does not seem right that the piano is out of tune. But, what is the condition of the piano, although it was tuned 6 months ago, maybe it hadn't been tuned for 5 years before that! Are these only pianos you h...

I think it could be from limitations of little to no regulation of the piano, some dealers just unpack them out the box and put them on the floor for sale. You mention the piano is 2 years old so in that time it will have gone through some climate/humidity change and if it hasn't had any attention i...

Easy to fix, should have been done before you saw it. Usually covered by guarentee for a year.

The dealer you bought from should be able to send a piano tech to you to sort it out. Maybe just a lack of prepping by the dealer? Do you/are you due to get a free tuning after purchase? ask for it to be sorted out. Just for example, how does the top octave feel (where there are no dampers) to the r...

HI, similarly here, the SAAPPT apart fom myself and two others were all people from the Worcester Pioneer School for the Blind in the Cape. None of the new students want to become tuners and no one to train them!

Answer 88

eighty-eight constellations seen in the Northern and Southern heavens

eighty-eight Keys on the piano


What do I win?

An "upright grand" from my observation is just a marketing term. A piano is a grand or an upright. For your other point, I guess the technology in making pianos improved that manufactures realized they could make smaller piano, but then on the opposite side of the coin it is how manufactur...

If it were a 100 years or more it would be "antique" but would have No antique value. The value of a piano is based more on function and condition of the Action. Here we have a dealer who markets Bernhard Steiner - place an order with a piano manufacturer for over 100 pianos and you can ha...

"London N.W." is North West, the early postal description of an area in London. Either "Hemingway & Thomas was a dealer or a manufacture in the area

"upright iron grand" - Marketing term, for a large upright

Hi, the thing is if the tuner put his lever on the pins and they felt too loose to tune then, no he would not be able to tune it. What did he say in this regard? Was he just too busy and on his way to his next appointment? FWIW I pitch raised a piano today which was a minor 3rd flat and will get ano...

Um, yes - but more like 47mm

Hammer line probably 1 7/8", let off 1/8" shall I go on?......

A piano and an electronic keyboard are vastly different in feel and touch. A keyboard has a soft, no resistance feel to it.

You can learn the piano and then play a keyboard but the opposite is not succesful

Why not hire a piano? look in your yellow pages.

Hi, what has to be isoldated is what is sticking? if it is the key is it at the bat pin (under the front of the keystick) or some mouse droppings stuck inbetween or is it in the Action that the problem lies? Cost? depends on the piano technician - for me if it is just a quick simple thing then it wo...

Thought I might as well get around to posting a question. Is there a url with a definitive series of pictures of different piano actions (grand & upright) on the web. I tuned a Cramer grand today, had a knotch instead of a roller, but the wippen was similar to a regualar action.