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This piano disappeared off a truck earlier this year.  If you have any information on it please contact Sarah Bell sebell07@gmail.com.  It might be notable because she has the legs and lyre.   The serial number is 245127, Steinway model M, mahogany.  I'm posting this as a courtesy to her.

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David Love RPT
www.davidlovepianos.com
davidlovepianos@comcast.net
415 407 8320
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This is not the only piano that is missing. I was hoping we (PTG) could put up a BOLO list on this site with some guidance to techs who came across a hot piano. You certainly do not want to confront someone in their living room if they got a hot piano on the cheap . There is a Yamaha in TN that went missing two or three years ago and still is. Apparently it was in a house that was part of an estate settlement, there was a house showing and later when relatives came to check on the house the piano was gone. A client here bought a piano off a truck in Florida. She told me it was a common thing and the story was they where repossessed rentals. She traded it in here because it had lots of problems with slow action centers but she got it at a bargain price, it had a white finish and was the right size.

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James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
843-325-4357
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2021 17:35
From: David Love
Subject: Missing Steinway

This piano disappeared off a truck earlier this year.  If you have any information on it please contact Sarah Bell sebell07@gmail.com.  It might be notable because she has the legs and lyre.   The serial number is 245127, Steinway model M, mahogany.  I'm posting this as a courtesy to her.

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David Love RPT
www.davidlovepianos.com
davidlovepianos@comcast.net
415 407 8320
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Ah, yes, the old truck piano sales.  But at least back then the pianos weren't stolen.

My dad used to do that when he worked for Starck in the late '50's early '60's. He would take a truck with about a dozzen pianos to a small town and sit in a parking lot of a large grocery store. He would sell pianos and deliver then straight to the customer's home. He would be gone for 3 or 4 days at a time. 

There were also a little more shady truck sales. Guys would advertise cheap "like new" pianos in a paper and then show up with a "repossed" piano, or a "lost sale", and offer a great "discount".

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Willem "Wim" Blees, RPT
Mililani, HI 96789
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2021 22:17
From: James Kelly
Subject: Missing Steinway

This is not the only piano that is missing. I was hoping we (PTG) could put up a BOLO list on this site with some guidance to techs who came across a hot piano. You certainly do not want to confront someone in their living room if they got a hot piano on the cheap . There is a Yamaha in TN that went missing two or three years ago and still is. Apparently it was in a house that was part of an estate settlement, there was a house showing and later when relatives came to check on the house the piano was gone. A client here bought a piano off a truck in Florida. She told me it was a common thing and the story was they where repossessed rentals. She traded it in here because it had lots of problems with slow action centers but she got it at a bargain price, it had a white finish and was the right size.

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James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
843-325-4357

Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2021 17:35
From: David Love
Subject: Missing Steinway

This piano disappeared off a truck earlier this year.  If you have any information on it please contact Sarah Bell sebell07@gmail.com.  It might be notable because she has the legs and lyre.   The serial number is 245127, Steinway model M, mahogany.  I'm posting this as a courtesy to her.

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David Love RPT
www.davidlovepianos.com
davidlovepianos@comcast.net
415 407 8320
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Actually the truck was stolen and when they found it the piano was gone along with other items.

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David Love RPT
www.davidlovepianos.com
davidlovepianos@comcast.net
415 407 8320
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2021 22:29
From: Willem Blees
Subject: Missing Steinway

Ah, yes, the old truck piano sales.  But at least back then the pianos weren't stolen.

My dad used to do that when he worked for Starck in the late '50's early '60's. He would take a truck with about a dozzen pianos to a small town and sit in a parking lot of a large grocery store. He would sell pianos and deliver then straight to the customer's home. He would be gone for 3 or 4 days at a time.

There were also a little more shady truck sales. Guys would advertise cheap "like new" pianos in a paper and then show up with a "repossed" piano, or a "lost sale", and offer a great "discount".

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Willem "Wim" Blees, RPT
Mililani, HI 96789

Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2021 22:17
From: James Kelly
Subject: Missing Steinway

This is not the only piano that is missing. I was hoping we (PTG) could put up a BOLO list on this site with some guidance to techs who came across a hot piano. You certainly do not want to confront someone in their living room if they got a hot piano on the cheap . There is a Yamaha in TN that went missing two or three years ago and still is. Apparently it was in a house that was part of an estate settlement, there was a house showing and later when relatives came to check on the house the piano was gone. A client here bought a piano off a truck in Florida. She told me it was a common thing and the story was they where repossessed rentals. She traded it in here because it had lots of problems with slow action centers but she got it at a bargain price, it had a white finish and was the right size.

------------------------------
James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
843-325-4357

Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2021 17:35
From: David Love
Subject: Missing Steinway

This piano disappeared off a truck earlier this year.  If you have any information on it please contact Sarah Bell sebell07@gmail.com.  It might be notable because she has the legs and lyre.   The serial number is 245127, Steinway model M, mahogany.  I'm posting this as a courtesy to her.

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David Love RPT
www.davidlovepianos.com
davidlovepianos@comcast.net
415 407 8320
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There was a certain tech in NY who ran into $$ problems and skipped the country some years ago. I was one of a number of people interested in finding out what had happened. I was contacted by two owners of high end grand pianos which he had been storing. One instrument was eventually found and returned, the other was not.
You can't make an elephant - or a piano - disappear. They are out there, somewhere...

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Jurgen Goering
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-20-2021 00:01
From: David Love
Subject: Missing Steinway

Actually the truck was stolen and when they found it the piano was gone along with other items.

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David Love RPT
www.davidlovepianos.com
davidlovepianos@comcast.net
415 407 8320

Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2021 22:29
From: Willem Blees
Subject: Missing Steinway

Ah, yes, the old truck piano sales.  But at least back then the pianos weren't stolen.

My dad used to do that when he worked for Starck in the late '50's early '60's. He would take a truck with about a dozzen pianos to a small town and sit in a parking lot of a large grocery store. He would sell pianos and deliver then straight to the customer's home. He would be gone for 3 or 4 days at a time.

There were also a little more shady truck sales. Guys would advertise cheap "like new" pianos in a paper and then show up with a "repossed" piano, or a "lost sale", and offer a great "discount".

------------------------------
Willem "Wim" Blees, RPT
Mililani, HI 96789

Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2021 22:17
From: James Kelly
Subject: Missing Steinway

This is not the only piano that is missing. I was hoping we (PTG) could put up a BOLO list on this site with some guidance to techs who came across a hot piano. You certainly do not want to confront someone in their living room if they got a hot piano on the cheap . There is a Yamaha in TN that went missing two or three years ago and still is. Apparently it was in a house that was part of an estate settlement, there was a house showing and later when relatives came to check on the house the piano was gone. A client here bought a piano off a truck in Florida. She told me it was a common thing and the story was they where repossessed rentals. She traded it in here because it had lots of problems with slow action centers but she got it at a bargain price, it had a white finish and was the right size.

------------------------------
James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
843-325-4357

Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2021 17:35
From: David Love
Subject: Missing Steinway

This piano disappeared off a truck earlier this year.  If you have any information on it please contact Sarah Bell sebell07@gmail.com.  It might be notable because she has the legs and lyre.   The serial number is 245127, Steinway model M, mahogany.  I'm posting this as a courtesy to her.

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David Love RPT
www.davidlovepianos.com
davidlovepianos@comcast.net
415 407 8320
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And sometimes serial numbers altered or obliterated. 

Pwg

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Peter Grey
Stratham NH
603-686-2395
pianodoctor57@gmail.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-25-2021 21:23
From: Jurgen Goering
Subject: Missing Steinway

There was a certain tech in NY who ran into $$ problems and skipped the country some years ago. I was one of a number of people interested in finding out what had happened. I was contacted by two owners of high end grand pianos which he had been storing. One instrument was eventually found and returned, the other was not.
You can't make an elephant - or a piano - disappear. They are out there, somewhere...

------------------------------
Jurgen Goering

Original Message:
Sent: 05-20-2021 00:01
From: David Love
Subject: Missing Steinway

Actually the truck was stolen and when they found it the piano was gone along with other items.

------------------------------
David Love RPT
www.davidlovepianos.com
davidlovepianos@comcast.net
415 407 8320

Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2021 22:29
From: Willem Blees
Subject: Missing Steinway

Ah, yes, the old truck piano sales.  But at least back then the pianos weren't stolen.

My dad used to do that when he worked for Starck in the late '50's early '60's. He would take a truck with about a dozzen pianos to a small town and sit in a parking lot of a large grocery store. He would sell pianos and deliver then straight to the customer's home. He would be gone for 3 or 4 days at a time.

There were also a little more shady truck sales. Guys would advertise cheap "like new" pianos in a paper and then show up with a "repossed" piano, or a "lost sale", and offer a great "discount".

------------------------------
Willem "Wim" Blees, RPT
Mililani, HI 96789

Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2021 22:17
From: James Kelly
Subject: Missing Steinway

This is not the only piano that is missing. I was hoping we (PTG) could put up a BOLO list on this site with some guidance to techs who came across a hot piano. You certainly do not want to confront someone in their living room if they got a hot piano on the cheap . There is a Yamaha in TN that went missing two or three years ago and still is. Apparently it was in a house that was part of an estate settlement, there was a house showing and later when relatives came to check on the house the piano was gone. A client here bought a piano off a truck in Florida. She told me it was a common thing and the story was they where repossessed rentals. She traded it in here because it had lots of problems with slow action centers but she got it at a bargain price, it had a white finish and was the right size.

------------------------------
James Kelly
Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
Pawleys Island SC
843-325-4357

Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2021 17:35
From: David Love
Subject: Missing Steinway

This piano disappeared off a truck earlier this year.  If you have any information on it please contact Sarah Bell sebell07@gmail.com.  It might be notable because she has the legs and lyre.   The serial number is 245127, Steinway model M, mahogany.  I'm posting this as a courtesy to her.

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David Love RPT
www.davidlovepianos.com
davidlovepianos@comcast.net
415 407 8320
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