Dodgy eBayer

[wishful thinker]

Anyone ever come across a certain dodgey eBayer who sells old pianos?

Well his latest offering is a Francke, partly described thus:

"TOP MAKER "FRANCKE" from the 1850s to about the 1950s GERMANY

A GRAND PIANO

HENCE FINE TOP SPECIFICATION CONCERT PIECE

A very original item sbout 100 years old OF TOP TYPE SPECIFICATION

A RARE PIANO IDEAL FOR A PERFORMER AND AT A LOW PRIC. IMMEDIATE DELIVERY FROM STOCK WITH OTHER ITEM/S WHERE MENTIONED VIEWABLE ANYTIME

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Not restored - its frame and markings and flags engravings believed original.

This piano speaks - maybe, it says: "Its alright mama you no got a Steinway anything  like that but Ill play for you (like Steinbeck or someone did once). This piano' possesses a good touch and tone with a very ornate and beautiful undercarriage. A large and impressive item with its top lid raised and ornamental stand, we have not the area to show it off A La London Palladium.

The item as well as having all the top features ie overstrung iron frame, roller action etc the quality of the gold cast frame speaks for itself, if anything so grand as on the Elgin marbles would surely be ten times this amount - we would have thought.

Disregarding that, to put it another way, if not by concondition of anything like concourse, one means to say (I should think) that the car-equivalent of this piano would be be the Hispano Suiza (if it were still made - of the early 20thCentury before you were born)built for the Spanish Royalty no less. Most Brits will never have heard of that.

Such is commercialism I would definately not want to play a new piano after playing and owning this. But that's me.

Consider too, Germany fought for Spain, and, one might, if, would dare say fopr Hisano Suiza? I shouldn't think so.

Rolls Royce however actually paid Hispano Suiza royalties to borrow their brakes! And this: Francke, here, borrowed the best and all of just about everything you've seen on any top make - most! ( - So many top makes you surely cannot be serious saying them here - but you know what they are, don't you, come and play this and you'll be shocked at the quality of tone I think).

Try if only a scale or two on this. It is like witnessing the Last Of The Mohicans - I needed lessons - period!.

Bidders with under 5 feedback (or have never heard of Die Winterreisse by Schubert who was a good deal shorter than this grand is long except when on horseback - one viewer mentioned he walked everywhere - not in a month of winters) please leave your contact detail before placing your bid or your bid may may be reected entirely at sellers discretion"

They didn't make many like him