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spidey
  
location:
Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
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< on 7/2/2007 8:51 PM >
|  | | | An old piano that my parents are throwing away. Id LOVE to keep the sound board but it looks like the whole thing is going to the dump. The piano was an antique schoolhouse piano. Not sure exactly when it was made but definitely a few years after 1899 hah
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spidey
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Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
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<Reply # 1 on 7/2/2007 10:03 PM >
| | | | Some more after we used a reciprocation saw (oh man did i almost cry) to cut corners and get it apart faster.
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Contagion
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<Reply # 2 on 7/3/2007 4:08 AM >
| | | | This thread sickens me.
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DevilC
  
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Gender: Male
I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views.
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<Reply # 3 on 7/3/2007 4:13 AM >
| | | | 500lbs of soundboard.
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Bones
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st.paul, minnesota
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 4 on 7/6/2007 5:27 PM >
| | | | Posted by Contagion
This thread sickens me.
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why?
out and under the town |
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IrIsHmOm
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San Joaquin Valley, CA
Gender: Female
I'll kill your face...
| | | | Re: Piano sound board
<Reply # 5 on 7/6/2007 5:36 PM >
| | | | So sad.... Those things are beautiful!
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spidey
location:
Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
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<Reply # 6 on 7/6/2007 5:39 PM >
| | | | Yah. And the trip through the air was spectacular for it. It hit a sofa and cut it in half and went all the way to the bottom of the trash container at the local dump. I almost cried even tho I had toted it in my own caravan with my own two hands. Good news is that i kept a tiny piece of it. But let me tell you getting rid of it was a not happy thing for me. Too beautiful, too valuable, too great to play.
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Larkinstales
location:
Marion Ohio
Gender: Male
To our wives and lovers - may they never meet!
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<Reply # 7 on 7/6/2007 6:15 PM >
| | | | Before I would send it to the dump I would find out what bronze is selling for!! at 50 cents a pound thats $250 clean off the wood and the strings it should sell at top price
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Martino
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Almere - NL
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2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
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<Reply # 8 on 7/6/2007 6:32 PM >
| | | | i would've kept it
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spidey
location:
Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
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<Reply # 9 on 7/6/2007 6:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by Larkinstales
Before I would send it to the dump I would find out what bronze is selling for!! at 50 cents a pound thats $250 clean off the wood and the strings it should sell at top price
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its painted cast iron; sorry not bronze.
I had no place in my apartment for it, and no way to get it in. I would have kept it too.
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Moderator
location:
Bunbury, Western Australia
Support your local Funeral Director ----- Drop Dead!
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<Reply # 10 on 7/6/2007 6:42 PM >
| | | | WINTER & COMPANY
Generally conceded to be one of America's largest and leading piano manufacturers, whose factory was located at 863 E. 141 Street, New York, N. Y., probably produced more instruments than any other single plant in the world. This company's enviable position in no small way could be attributed to its open-minded approach to new methods and improvements and in its genuine interest in producing fine pianos. Winter had a reputation for progressiveness which resulted in beautifully toned, and styled pianos of long durability. This is the company that introduced the Alumatone plate; developed Practiano, a device permitting piano practice without disturbance to others in the room; and the Resotonic Scale. It was Winter & Company's Musette piano, first introduced in 1935, that launched the great re-styling movement which has swept the modern console into nation-wide popularity.
With all equipment for production of quality pianos under the most economical conditions. The Winter factory is self-contained with a large lumber yard for storing and air-drying kilns to insure proper drying and aging of all wood parts. The Winter lumber mill is considered a model for completeness of equipment to turn out the most elaborate case work; as well as backs, pin blocks, bridges, etc., of the very highest quality. The veneers used in the Winter pianos are carefully selected for beauty of figure and a completely equipped veneering department with hot plate presses, automatic glue spreaders, veneer dryers, taping and matching machines insure productive efficiency and permanent bonding. Core stock is quarter-sawed in small strips so that even under the most adverse conditions, warping of case work is held to a minimum. In the case shop, elaborate sanding machines, as well as a staff of hand sanders, guarantee smooth rich finish.
All Winter piano cases are double filled and stained before best quality lacquer is applied to produce the handsome, durable finish. All exposed internal wood parts are filled and sealed to protect against moisture and atmospheric conditions. In stringing, action finishing, side-gluing, regulating and tuning, experienced craftsmen perform these operations by the best traditional hand methods. These men are of long experience. many having been with the company over thirty years, and have long training in the art of producing fine tone qualitv Steady employment at the Winter factory, as a result of the large demand for its pianos, has attracted the best and most experienced craftsmen. Every operation in the factory is passed upon by an inspector before moving on to the next department. Finally, each instrument is hand-rubbed, fine tuned, and a final inspection before shipment serves to protect the high standards of Winter pianos. The recognition given by the trade to the Winter line is the best evidence of their muscal excellence, fine quality and attractive designs. Winter & Co. make a very comprehensive line of pianos, consisting of grands, studios, spinets, and consoles in a varety of cases.
Serial Numbers of Pianos Before 1960:
1900 - 4000 1940 - 183000 1952 - 291000 1957 - 84800
1910 - 28000 1946 - 225000 1953 - 310000 1958 - 92500
1930 - 98000 1951 - 278000 1955 - 324000 1960 - 102000
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Martino
location:
Almere - NL
Gender: Male
2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
| | | Re: Piano sound board
<Reply # 11 on 7/6/2007 6:54 PM >
| | | | ...I had no place in my apartment for it, and no way to get it in. I would have kept it too...
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I you loved it, it simply had to go with you.
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spidey
location:
Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
| | | Re: Piano sound board
<Reply # 12 on 7/6/2007 6:56 PM >
| | | | Posted by Martino
I you loved it, it simply had to go with you.
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I don't think you understand the whole "my father took a reciprocating saw to the body before i got home" deal. I WANTED TO KEEP IT.
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Martino
location:
Almere - NL
Gender: Male
2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
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<Reply # 13 on 7/7/2007 1:57 PM >
| | | | there's nothing about your dad doing this in this thread is there?
A well....i'm glad you understand my point and you didn't wanted it to go either
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Tupsumato
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Finland
Gender: Male
How close can you go?
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<Reply # 14 on 7/7/2007 3:21 PM >
| | | | Reminds me of what my dad was going to do with all the antique furniture in our summer cottage when we bought it...
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spidey
location:
Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
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<Reply # 15 on 7/7/2007 4:50 PM >
| | | | Posted by Martino
there's nothing about your dad doing this in this thread is there?
A well....i'm glad you understand my point and you didn't wanted it to go either
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Sorry, I just said that a saw was used; not that I had no say in the matter. It wasnt pleasant, let me tell you, to hear that saw when I walked in the door. I assumed I had written more than I had.
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Glass
 
location:
Chicago
as one does
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<Reply # 16 on 7/7/2007 4:57 PM >
| | | | The piano is cool, but it's not related at all to this website and the photos aren't very consistent with the aesthetic most people achieve before asking for a critique.
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spidey
location:
Maryland
Gender: Male
Retired Cat-Burglary
| | | Re: Piano sound board
<Reply # 17 on 7/7/2007 5:21 PM >
| | | | Posted by Glass
The piano is cool, but it's not related at all to this website and the photos aren't very consistent with the aesthetic most people achieve before asking for a critique.
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Thanks!
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tholcomb
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Chattanooga, TN
Gender: Male
Captain Baghead!
| | Re: Piano sound board
<Reply # 18 on 7/8/2007 2:57 AM >
| | | | Should've put it on ebay.
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