Hello! - for whatever reason, I've decided to give an old piano some new life. This piano has endured an interesting "refurbishing" and many years of abuse, I'd like to make it right, but I am having a hard time finding any information on it. Hopefully, the hundreds of you great folks can help point me somewhere. Let's start with some photos:
Flickr album of pictures . For whatever reason, I have this piano dated 1941. To be honest, I can't find a serial #, lots of stamped build numbers, but the serial appears missing. The other weirdness is that this piano measures exactly 5'0" from nose to slip cover. Not 5'2 or 4'9 as my scale book would suggest.
The majority of questions are related to the pinblock. I was able to lift the plate and simply pickup the block with two fingers and lift it out. The block shelf barely touches it. So, on this piano , one would look at the plate and think that is free floating? Maybe not, opinions would be great (or thoughts.)
The piano has a 30 string bass section and new bass strings are being made for it in England, by John Delacour. (again, why not try something super-unconventional...) From your rebuild experiences..If you had a decent budget - what would you see want to see in a little piano like this? This piano will live out its years at a private community college.
Jason