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Great suggestions!
Will do.
Thanks again for your help.
Gene

Thank you for your professional and honest comment. Somehow I thought Ibach was popular in UK. The one I have was sold in London as I mentioned in my first post. I have an estimate to fix the player mechanism of $1000 + whatever the piano part requires (at least replacement of a number of strings, a...

Thanks Colins. Do you have any idea about how much a piano like this restored can sell for? I did some research here in the US. There are only few Ibachs for sale but I could not find any Ibach Higel player piano. Is this considered a rare piano? In the collector's world is this something valuable? ...

Thank you! It's a Rud Ibach Sohn (Barmen-Berlin) with Otto Higel (London) player mechanism. I had the player mechanism inspected by a specialized piano tech who found it in very good general conditions.He said mechanism was called "Metalnola". It needs replacing a metal support for the upp...

Thank you! I had the player mechanism inspected by a specialized piano tech who found it in very good general conditions. It needs replacing a metal support for the upper roll which has to be built, pedal pin and clean up (total amount $1000 or less). The problem are the strings. It's way below pitc...

Hi, I just bought an Ibach player piano with Higel player mechanism - upright. Serial #94430. It needs restoration but it's beautiful. It was probably sold new long ago in London through the Civil Service Association. This piano was probably built 1929/30. It seems Ibach used deferent player's mecha...

Hi, I just bought an Ibach player piano with Higel player mechanism - upright. Serial #94430. It needs restoration but it's beautiful. It was probably sold new long ago in London through the Civil Service Stores - Civil Service Supply Association Limited as indicated on the fall board (other serial#...

Bill, Thank you very much for your detailed and prompt reply. I have some low quality pictures taken by piano seller. As soon ad I receive the piano I will take some pictures and will share them here. This Erard has metal plate and action seems "modern". The cabinet is beautiful made of sa...

Hallo, I just bought an Erard grand serial # 123372. It seems this piano was built circa 1935. I searched in Internet and read few specialized piano books looking for information about the Erard brand in the XX century. I found a great deal of info about the great achievements of Erard in XIX centur...