1885 Blüthner

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Openwood
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1885 Blüthner

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This piano in Guernsey is due to be dumped on Friday. It’s nothing to do with me other than I was asked if I wanted it (I don’t). It’s barely playable and a local technician estimated it would need around 10k of work. The case is beautiful and keys are in good condition. Nobody has expressed any interest in it - in my position would you take it and store it so there’s at least a chance of it being restored by someone in the future, or would you accept that it’s stuck in the English Channel, nobody is going to pay to ship it to the mainland and it’s come to the end of its life?
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Suggest contacting Roberts Pianos in Oxford to ask if they are interested. They like small Bluthners and also restore older pianos.
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If somebody wanted to deliver it to Linconshire free of charge, I would be delighted to have it in our time-line, and might well get it working for very little money.
In the real world, what you say is true, it is unlikely to be worth the cost of transporting it from Guernsey.
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