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He's still not taking his medication......

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... SS:GB:1123

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I'm sure your appraisal of the barless grand is shared by many, Joe and it's one of the reasons I feel there might be a groundswell of enthusiasm for bringing these wonderful instruments back to the fore. Extraordinary to think they once retailed for more than equivalent Steinways and yet can now be...

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Ha ha Gill! Well, pass the word to any of your barless clients. I will be building a register of serial numbers/locations - bit trainspotty I know - but it will mesh with Broadwood's own celebrated archive of original sale details going back to Pérotin lol

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Introducing THE BARLESS CLUB! Not a place for Alcoholics Anonymous to hang out in but dedicated to the Broadwood barless piano. The domain name http://www.thebarlessclub.org.uk has been registered but it'll take some weeks before the website and forum are up and running Broadwood first patented the ...

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A very interesting post! I'm due to go down to Richard Dain's for the first time during 11/12th April. And a concert pianist colleague will have gone there a few days before then. She's hoping to record an entire album on a Phoenix There are a number of people in the UK with an engineering and/or sc...

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pills......my pink pills.......

I

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them

quick

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Never has the silly season started with such panache as this prize posting from the Master of Mastication himself

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BROADWOOD-BARLESS ... 0436103179

my pills.......where are my pills...........

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More side-splitting stuff from The Master of the carefully crafted p**s take...... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GRAND-PIANO-TO-THE-PEOPLE-OF-BERGEN-BELSEN_W0QQitemZ290376648540QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL?hash=item439bcc075c I'd love to sample this stuff......then lay it over some Speed G...

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It's vintage stuff! What would life be like.......without the regular contributions of "my-real-passion-and-charlie-s-birth-of-erotica" to the well-being of the piano fraternity? Thankyou yea thankyou for bringing such joy, bewilderment and despair http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BECHSTEIN-GRAND-PIA...

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Oh my oh my (hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha etc) I'm convinced this utter drivel HAS to be contrived and carefully crafted to take the mick out of us all..... "BECHSTEIN GRAND GENERL GORDON STEINWAY MAPLE about best The New Imperial Music Empire1880-1913 £50,000 new" The skewed pic...

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It might be p***ing down with rain......no dosh in my a/c......no point in booking a holiday......and all the oil's running out.....but for sheer distraction-inducing delights there's nothing in this world to beat a posting by Mr ChelseaDollsHouse I just love the comment about him not getting out fo...

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I've had to assess a large, very heavy and unusually deep upright of this marque which has to find another home within the next 2 weeks. This is about as solid an upright as I've ever come across. Serial in the 4000s. Unusual, ornately carved legs in a rustic style. Overstrung, underdamped. Probably...

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Having inoocently to started this incomparable thread some undue aeons ago I see it has achieved insoumantable greatest as the most-perused thread in here.......

.......not that it has stopped him from continuing to post acres of dog-dung

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I want anonymity to remain. It's the only way to get frank comments posted up even if they offend people. I'm not a tuner/technician but a pro musician and principal of a music school. I want to see all shades of opinion posted in here without fear of intimidation. I want to see good as well as bad ...

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Returning to Bluthner Patent Action - it's an action you absolutely LOVE or not. I don't have a Bluthner myself but the properly set up BP-actions I've played are simply marvellous for my playing style: silky smooth, ultra-light but totally controllable too. I've asked a highly successful piano teac...

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@ Vernon........mopping up tears......chewing the carpet......can't take no more piano-abuse

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Thanks everyone The owner is absolutely incandescent with rage about this and I can't believe they won't do whatever it takes to make life as uncomfortable as possible for the trader. And it would be as easy as pie to persuade another half dozen folk to submit their own experiences of piano-betrayal...

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PG, I couldn't possibly comment on this person's religious affiliations (though I'd be shocked if he actually had any!)

......*phew* this room's getting warm......must open the window......

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We have one in our town and for years he's had a simply wretched effect on the local piano community. Typically he will buy dirt-cheap, put the piano on his website as 'reconditioned' (when it's had nothing more than a squirt of Pledge and a mediocre tune) then wait for some unsuspecting punter to c...

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The sostenuto option is a very nice resource to have - but it needs a lot of practice to get the most out of it, particularly when combined with the normal sustain pedal. Apart from the obvious repertoire of the late romantics & moderns needing it I've often thought Bach and the other contrapunt...

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Even HE has outdone himself in this edifice of cack http://cgi.ebay.com/Bechstein-White-Gol ... .m63.l1177. Will someone - anyone - please him out of his misery?

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Anyone know of a source of FULL-WIDTH piano stools? Full-width meaning a THREE-seater as long as the width of a standard 88-note keyboard. Teachers among you who teach in a hands-on fashion - like I do - know what a pain it is to be constantly repositioning the stool for accompanying the pupil one e...

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Well, I've seen it all now.......GG's replica chair for sale through a dedicated website!! http://www.glenngould-chair.com/

GG also made some wonderfully quirky (non-musical) films

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I share your interest in Glenn Gould: if only there were more free-thinking musical personalities like him nowdays instead of all this bland and predictable conformity Here's another quaint story about GG: apparently he only ever used one seat during all his performances and recordings. This was an ...

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Openwood wrote:If you insert it into your mouth it's fair to say you have a facial tick.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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Openwood wrote:If you insert it into your mouth it's fair to say you have a facial tick.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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you mean the smaller the piano the smaller the sound???? :?: Yes.............but...... ........ some people like a 'smaller' sound......especially in a smaller space Difficult to know who in here is taking the piss......who is being witty.......and who is being merely patronising/rude......(and all...

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What is it about the poor old Broadwood Barless which attracts weird sellers and mad buyers like me who seek these unique instruments out? In the last half a dozen years I've met and negotiated with many Barless owners & restorers - 95% of them strange but none wackier than the latest. I've even...

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Very sensitive subject.....dyselxia perhaps?.....is Phil aware of his spelling etc?......and its possible effect on his potential customers? I wish he'd give his content to someone else to proof-read. Phil, if you're reading this please don't take it the wrong way. Your work is obviously held in hig...

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Without a doubt Phil Taylor http://www.pianos4me.co.uk/. I think he still has a Model C and an E both of which he has restored from scratch. I haven't tried the E but his 'C' has one of the very last UK-made Langer actions. Phil makes his own bass strings. He DID have two Cs and I put a deposit down...

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This is most interesting news! If he concentrates on making top-quality barless pianos (and restoring vintage barless ones) he might very well succeed. 'Barless' was always the true USP of Broadwood and Alastair is a great enthusiast for the concept

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I beleive the Laurence and nash pianos were very well made and that the BBC bought some of them . I wonder what quality the Broadwood barless made by them was ? Labrookes took over production of them when Laurence and Nash went out of business , they even made a barless grand , what happened to it ...

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Yes I visited http://www.cheltenham-piano-centre.co.uk/ last year (Spring I think) and they had 3 or 4 Knight Savoys which were the last ones at the point of liquidation of BPMC. You would have to ask Cheltenham about their precise history/provenance but I believe they were bought either as parts or...

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Nibbio - I would wait and buy a mint-condition s/h English-built piano of the 1970s/80s/90s PRE-amalgamation era and consider also ones which go back a considerable number of years if they've been properly restored. There are some beauties around for less than £2000 and some have hardly been used - ...

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abc1337 you're a jammy *b........d* and a lucky *o*. A Roland A90ex plus ear-irons for £600!!!! Those things were built like tanks. A bit sluggish in the key-return for my taste but the build-quality! Congrats to you My own bargain last year was a 1997 Reid-Sohn SU131 in hardly-played mint-condition...

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I have a little theory. There are now hundreds possibly thousands of mint-condition 1960s/70s/80s uprights lying idle in domestic environments. These would have been bought new and remained with the original owner in the same place all these years. Usually two scenarios: 1) someone close to retireme...

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From what you say you're looking for an upright? First decide on the HEIGHT and generally buy the tallest (131+ cm) you can afford New..... at around £4500 or less you can buy a Brodmann 131 which is not a well-known marque YET in the UK but they are stunning for the price http://www.brodmann-pianos...

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"........I need to sell my piano due to moving house and would like some advice about pricing it. It is a modern style upright Challen in what I think is a beech finish. It was purchased new in the early 80s for around £1,800.00 (if memory serves correctly) and I imagine, judging by the modern ...

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Can anyone cast some light on this please? Rameau pianos: these have been stocked by Harrods (certainly up to 6 years ago) but I can't find much about them on the web. There seems to be a link with Pleyel. Were/are the two marques made in the same facility in Alès? I know Pleyel is no longer manufac...

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How can ANYONE - criminal or otherwise - tolerate such a catastrophic collapse in THEMSELVES as to persist in this utterly worthless, pointless, brain-dead activity?

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I meant to add.......

I've read a number of postings in piano forums which mention the LIGHTNESS of touch of the Seiler 132 SMR.....so I'm baffled why this particular 132 should have a distinctly heavy touch

Suggestions......thoughts......contra-indications?

THANKS

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Does anyone have an intimate experience of the response characteristics of the Seiler 132 Konzert SMR upright with its patented Super Magnet Repetiton (SMR) technology? I have committed myself to buying a recently-built model - a lovely sounding piano - but have reservations about the heaviness of t...

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Thanks PG but is the K a better bet than the older Vertigrand? There are two amazingly expensive Vertigrands online: http://www.forsyths.co.uk/Rebuilt_Pianos/Secondhandrebuiltpianos/SteinwayVertigrand2.htm http://www.forsyths.co.uk/Rebuilt_Pianos/Secondhandrebuiltpianos/SteinwayVertigrand.htm I do w...

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What's the connection between the Steinway Model K and the 'Vertigrand' descriptive? Are they one and the same? Or what? Has anyone got any experience of these? I notice Piano Auctions have 3 Steinway uprights of these types in the sale this month. Any comments very gratefully received I'm looking f...

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Ok, now a similar question about Weber pianos.....comments anyone? Is it the same tortuous story of various Chinese provenances with certain amounts of European input?

Do any of these Chiman makes have a full height (131cm) upright in their range?

Cheers

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Bri, I spent 3 years trying Bluthner vintage grands of the pre-1914 period and they are excellent instruments built to last. I too think highly of the patent system which is very fast and light but as PG says not many technicians are practised at regulating them. There are a lot of vintage Bluthners...

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Dependable as ever PG - thanks a mill! I've only ever played one Perzina and was very impressed I must say. I take it then that the 'right' Perzina is a better bet than a Gors & K? I just can't keep up with the byzantine world of oriental pianos. Maybe Barry should run a special page on the whol...

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Anyone got any comments on Perzina pianos? (A pupil is considering one). Cheers

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I charge my normal hourly teaching rate £34 for 1) 30 min rehearsal 2) 20 mins round-trip and parking 3) a few minutes in the exam room Otto, I LOVE that Poulenc 2-piano concerto. I hope one day I'll be able to play it in public (piano costs notwithstanding). My 60th birthday treat? Ever hear Poulen...

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I charge my normal hourly teaching rate £34 for 1) 30 min rehearsal 2) 20 mins round-trip and parking 3) a few minutes in the exam room Otto, I LOVE that Poulenc 2-piano concerto. I hope one day I'll be able to play it in public (piano costs notwithstanding). My 60th birthday treat? Ever hear Poulen...

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