![]() Check with a tuner some might take on the replacing the keytop and one tuning for a fixed price. Getting the one key top repaired probably would take someone with piano experience, but there are lots of junky donor uprights that have keytops. My 41 Steinway needs tuning again after 3 years, and has a faint boink on one note due to usage or a spliced string. This fall he tells me he has quit playing the Pearl River, having had 5 strings put in it on the same note, and nobody can repair it. I have a rich high school friend that was repeating all the lore from the store of his "superior" Pearl River console piano when he bought it three years ago, and I bought my very used 1941 Steinway. Picky rich people don't care how it sounds, they want a Yamaha because the salesman is so cute! I can't find a piano teacher around here, they have all bought Yamahas, which I think sound generic and have really stupid middle pedals (console). I don't know if this would increase your price a lot. ![]() This is more of an advanced hobbiest piano, and I would be tempted if it wasn't 800 miles away.Ī furniture restorer could probably do a job on the finish and external dings for $600 if you are a pro and he has a chance at some repeat business. If the middle pedal works right (holds up only the keys down at the time it was pushed) maybe it would draw even more. ![]() You could probably get $500 on craigslist as is where is. Many uprights were junk, but Knabe was one of the quality brands IMHO. ![]() Many 1924 pianos that I have played in Sunday school (uprights) are fine except for some missing keytops and 50 year old tuning. But home pianos often were more of a fashion statement than something people played a lot. Steinways of that age are often beat to death by too many hours of use, and require a lot of work to felts and pins etc. These pros get all excited about restoration with their $5000-10000 estimates. ![]()
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