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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
I have an Upright Grand Piano that's from 1914. My Dad came accross it in a flood claim back in the 80's. He took it get some restoration work done and the Piano guy convinced him to spend a few dollars on it thinking it was a Decker Brothers New York as opposed to Decker Brothers Chicago Piano. So the restoration project was stopped part way thru when it was realized that this wasn't the good Decker Brothers Piano.
My Mom still has a Gramaphone that's from the early part of the 1900's. My Grandfather bought it second hand in 1925, and I remember them giving it to us in like 1987 because we had to drive from East of Regina to Cranbrook with 3 of us in the front seat of our small 86 Buick Lesabre. It still has a few of those old records that came with it. So one day I'll put my claim on that to keep as it's almost been in the family for 100 years now.
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We have a piano that we got because my brother-in-law moved into an apartment downtown and it was just there.
He asked the landlord to get rid of it and was promptly told: "No. Its your piano now."
And lo and behold my youngest daughter wanted to learn to play piano!
So I paid a company to move it from his apartment to my house and then paid to have it cleaned and tuned so my daughter could use it for practice.
It was at that point that I learned that people hide all kinds of sordid things in pianos.
I think piano tuners make more money pocketing the stuff they find hidden in pianos than they do for their actual piano-tuning fees.
So for consumer advice, if you ever get a used piano, have it professionally moved, tuned, cleaned and then douse the thing in Lysol. Maybe even ignite it for a short period to kill everything with fire.