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Get Started Restoring Player Pianos
By D. L. Bullock

This is the most unusual eBay sale offering I have seen.  It is simply
called "Player Piano - Restoration - Start Now" :

  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2555224555
  Pianos and material to supply your piano business or perfect
  for persons that wants to start restoring player pianos.
  ... Toccoa, GA [near Atlanta]

Bidding is starting out at $100.00.  If it was closer and I did not
have 200 players already, I might go for it.  It looks like the price
will be right.  I suspect the cloth will need replacement depending
upon how old it is.

The collection of tools and supplies sounds interesting but I have
purchased a few retired or deceased technician's tool collections and
I find usually I have to toss out the leather if it is ten or twenty
years old.  Bellows cloth would also be suspect.  Tools, books, and
what looks like a couple thousand $$ worth of stuff with five pianos
as well as a brand new low pressure spraying system.

There is a reserve but it started low.

D.L. Bullock    St. Louis
www.thepianoworld.com

 [ The books alone should bring more than $100!  -- Robbie


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