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From: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
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Subject: Re: query about Biddle pianos
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Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 22:42:16 EST
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In article <222@nbs-amrf.UUCP> hopp@nbs-amrf.UUCP writes:
 > Someone around here is selling a Biddle oak upright piano (circa 1920)
 > for $500/best offer.  The hammers have been rebuilt.  I don't know
 > anything about either Biddle pianos in general or this one in particu-
 > lar.  Can anyone tell me something about this line of pianos?  Does the
 > above info identify the model; are some Biddle models good and some
 > bad; are there special things to look out for; any opinions on whether
 > this is a good/bad/it-depends deal?

Biddle piano Company:
	Established 1861 New York

(from:
  Alfred Dodge, Pianos and their makers, Covina publishing Company, Covina Ca.
  reprinted  Dover 0-486-22856-8, 1972)

	jaap (mcvax!jaap)

PS. You don't rebuild hammers, you replace them.