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| Incognito Beatification Candidate  |
You know your playing really sucks when: 
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly  |
1896 Emerson, Zorba Approved (tm): 
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
S&S uprights seldom catch my eye - this is a beautiful exception:   Get a load of the length of those stickers! 
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
I have an old Kimball in storage from 1896 quite nearly identical to that Emerson. I intend to rebuild the action and refinish it someday. It's tone is gorgeous, but the action has seen better days. I really like that S&S. It reminds me of my favorite case for the tall old uprights, which was a Mathushek offering.
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I crated it for the move and decided not to bring it into the house until it's redone. My shop is roomy and temperature controlled. The crate is to keep the mice out until I decide to do all that work, since I don't want to do more work than it already needs. The case veneer is all very good, but the finish is alligatored to the point of a fine sand texture. Which actually looks rather good, but for the point that it traps dust. Mostly the action just needs all those bridle straps replaced, the little silk threads to the springs replaced and the hammers lightly sanded. Nice ivories in good condition. Nary a clunker in the strings and good board and bridges.
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No bill. It's in storage in my own shop building out back.
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| sat on a pin mary rose Forum Groupie  |
Is it just me, or do pianos seem like living things rather than pieces of furniture? They don't deserve to die. They should go to the piano retirement home in Cuba or somewhere 
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| Nobody's $hillbot Has Achieved Nirvana  |
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Hope those aren't south-facing windows... 
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
They'd just end up coming back as makeshift boats and rafts. The island is mostly deforested now. They'd appreciate the lumber. 
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
And it's very, very cool. As for the grand, perhaps the windows ARE south facing - in Australia!
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I know Kenny's got a string cover... any one else? 
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| sat on a pin mary rose Forum Groupie |
I think it's a rather beautiful object, but wouldn't the proximity of the steel change the sound a little?
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