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Hehehe, I do hope you meant to write £800! Will the tuner be able to tell me if he can take it up before works need being done, or will I have to do the repairs and then find out? Would £300 be a rough estimate of how much repairing the shank and regulate would be? Out of interes...

Thank you both for your replies. So I take it that it can be worthwhile getting that piano into some sort of health? I am a tad weary of spending an enormous amount of money and then be told that it will never keep its tune. But I guess it is a bit like old cars.. Please can you clarify the "th...

Hello, We acquired an 1906 Barratt and Robinson upright. It is very out of tune, one key is not working as the pin has snapped (not too sure about the terminology but it is the "stick" holding the hammer) and the felt on the dampners are worn. Is it repairable? Not needed for a concert pit...