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Thanks Audrey that is very considerate of you! I'll reach out to you via your email.

Ok - so here's a quick update. I had a respected piano tuner/refurbisher come out to look at it this evening. He could have not been any different in his assessment as the first gentleman. This time he did remove the action and do some testing and was very interested on how the whole mechanism worke...

Thanks Colin. Yes, it will be taken to a shop to be re-regulated/refurbished. I have another guy coming out this week to give his assessment and I'll get back to you. Yes, have a budget but I have some flexibility. If it makes sense to put an additional few more bob into it to get it to a perceptibl...

Thanks Colin. I'll have to read that posting you sent over the weekend. I had a guy come out yesterday and this was his assessment of what he could do for us within budget below. He felt the piano was in pretty good shape and needed to be regulated to get it to a standard that we would be happy with...

Thanks Colin just seeing your response now. I have a guy coming to see the piano tomorrow evening let's see what he can see up close. Thanks for the detail. I'll get back to you.

additional photo if it helps.

Thanks guys - I didn't realize it was so easy to get to the mechanism. Attached are photos and another matching serial number I had not seen with "J WELLS" and an additional "899" there. Anyone know what that is by chance and who J WELLS might be?

Here's looking for good news!

Thanks I'll look into that over the weekend. Don't know what happened to photo. Retrying to attach again here. Here is a photo of the back of the music stand and here's my guess at what is original and not (would be interested to hear what people think): Original: 1 and 2 I believe are original. Mig...

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Thanks Colin and Vernon. Just a couple of comments based on your feedback. ***Please excuse my amateur terms below as I get a crash course on the lingo. Yes - I will be having an "expert" come out to have a look at it in person in the next couple of weeks hopefully and will send an update ...

Thanks Colin for your quick response and questions. See other posting for more photos and photos here also - thanks for having a look over. So in response to some of your comments. Absolutely, I'd be prepared to buy the whole hog to get a music stand - and then donate/scrap the rest. As you will see...

Here the photos of the actual piano with some details.

Hi everyone - I'm a first time poster and am looking for some advice on next steps for a recently purchased a 6' 6 1/2 '' Collard & Collard parlor/boudoir grand in an estate sale here in Atlanta, GA. Bill from the Piano History Center has kindly dated it to perhaps the late 1870's. It has a seri...