John Brinsmead & Sons Upright Piano

andfan64 · Post by **andfan64** » 18 Dec 2008, 10:41

I have a John Brinsmead & Sons upright piano, serial number 19544. According to the History of John Brinsmead pianos webpage, the serial number indicates that this piano was build between 1872 - 1875. Can anyone give me any idea of what this piano is worth?

Post by **Bill Kibby** » 18 Dec 2008, 20:30

As you can read at the Numbers page at www.PianoGen.org the early numbers published for Brinsmead are inaccurate, but this one is probably around 1876. Nobody is going to give a valuation without coming to Capetown to test it. Is there a tuner around there? To quote my Home page, it's fair to say that although I am fascinated by Victorian pianos, they rarely fetch as much as 90 pounds at local auctions here in the UK, unless they have been professionally restored, indeed many fetch less than 20 pounds.