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Re: Antique upright piano
« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2014, 10:42:44 pm »
??? what is this site regarding mart, as I need to have an account?

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Re: Antique upright piano
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2014, 09:10:10 am »
Sorry about that,, tried to move a pic from my email and it didn`t work !! Let me find one that will !! Tried to delete that but that didn`t work either !!  Ok finally figured out how to remove a post !!
Now let me find a workable pic !!
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Re: Antique upright piano
« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2014, 09:10:53 am »
The following site may help you make a decision regarding valuing, selling or donating your piano.
http://www.pianofinders.com/index.htm

For a piece probably dating back to 1900 I would hate to see it remodeled into a bar. There are bars and there are pianos, but they both need to be relative to each other. I can't look at an old upright without recalling a few lines of the Shooting of Dan McGrew by Robert Service.

..."His eyes went rubbering round the room, and he seemed in a kind of daze,
Till at last that old piano fell in the way of his wandering gaze.
The rag-time kid was having a drink; there was no one else on the stool,
So the stranger stumbles across the room, and flops down there like a fool.
In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat, and I saw him sway;
Then he clutched the keys with his talon hands -- my God! but that man could play"
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Re: Antique upright piano
« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2014, 09:18:19 am »
Her plan was to sell it Rauville but trying to find someone that will buy it and move it may be a trick !!  I would try that first !!  But if you are stuck with something you don`t want and can`t use,, there should be options that will make it useful for you !!