1905 model A mason and hamlin

[agretsuk]

hi all!

Please help if possible! I have a gorgeous piano that needs a new home where it won't be left to dust and the doom of being out of tune.

My sister and I have to sell our beloved grand piano because our mother is moving and we can't take it (small apartments).

Please contact me with questions. The serial number is 15507, which makes it a 1905 vintage. It's a model A (5'8" in length). I do have photos and if you are interested and in the area you are more than welcome to come see it in person!

It is fully restored, kept away from windows and out of sunlight, hasn't been moved since we bought it in 1997, is tuned regularly and has a humidifer meter installed for the soundboard. Great condition, basically.

$25,000 OBO

My e-mail is agretsuk@gmail.com

if you know anyone looking for a piano who might be interested, please send them my way! (or send me away, off to somewhere we might find a buyer  )

thank you!
Allison

[agretsuk]

asking price has been lowered to $20,000 or best offer. thanks!

[pantonality]

I'm not in the market for a piano. Assuming your piano has not been rebuilt then it's only value would be as a rebuildable core. At 105 years old the sound board has experienced the shift from hot humid summer to dry winter and back enough times to reduce crown below usefulness. Any of the quality of original manufacture is long gone and what's left is the result of climate and use. Steinway pianos of the same vintage might get $5000. Your best bet for selling quickly is to offer the piano to a rebuilder. Good luck!

[ahinton]

I'm not in the market for a piano. Assuming your piano has not been rebuilt then it's only value would be as a rebuildable core. At 105 years old the sound board has experienced the shift from hot humid summer to dry winter and back enough times to reduce crown below usefulness. Any of the quality of original manufacture is long gone and what's left is the result of climate and use. Steinway pianos of the same vintage might get $5000. Your best bet for selling quickly is to offer the piano to a rebuilder. Good luck!

Your remarks about the soundboard here take no account of the Mason & Hamlin tension resonator and its impact on that soundboard in locking it into position; it also takes no account of the fact that you have no idea of the climatic conditions to which this instrument has been subjected over the past 105 years or indeed what refurbishment work may have been done to it over that time or how well and regularly its general maintenance has been carried out. In other words, you are not familiar with this particular instrument. I therefore suggest that you may be expressing a negative view of the instrument that may not be justified in the circumstances and that only sight of it and trying it out will give a realistic idea of how much it might fetch in its present condition. You might be right, but then again you might not.

That said, $20K or $25K does might a little over-optimistic!

Best,

Alistair

[keys60]

I guess pantonality missed the part where it said fully restored in 1997.
I see Model A's fully just fully restored for 18-21K by some really good shops like Country Pianos in Watkins Glen NY.

[netzow]

Whoooahhhh.

A. It has been "restored" which suggests to me that the orginal soundboard has been repaired.
B. Just because A piano is 105 years old does not mean that it has no usable crown. I've seen older with plenty of crown and newer with none.
C. Having a tension resonator does not necessarily mean that a soundboard has crown.
D. Depending on the condition of the SB, the wear on the action........ $20,000 for a Mason of this vintage is not unreasonable