Rinnermann Belrin upright - is it the right one!

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Hello everybody
I have a dilemma. I am looking for a nice upright to play just now, don't think the digital is my thing. I was looking to get something fairly modern, but stumbled acorss a Rinnermann upright for sale locally.
I went to see it, it is in a very good condition, I recon around 100 years old. The case is sound and well preserved, the insides look good (to me), apart from some dust all is looking good. It sounds lovely, such a lovely tone and all keys are perfectly functional.

I took a note of a serial number, to check out at home, but could not find anything about this make?  They want £250 for it, but I am sure they'd go down in price if prompted. My only concern is that will it not start slowly falling apart if I play a lot and also if it is a rare make that it would be difficult to find parts/repair??

Let me know what you think, a picture attached.
thanks. tonya

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Some of those old uprights do have beautiful tone, especially if tuned down a little bit ( most were not built with A440 in mind). It may be in great shape, you should just bear in mind that all old pianos like that will require TLC to own. Also there are many brands to be had at bargain prices.

I owned an old upright before my old grand I have now. It needed frequent tunings, the action was slow and repetition even slower but it had wonderful tonal quality. It was a good piano for slow melodic pieces and for first learning . I knew I needed to move on from it. Not saying this old piano you are looking at is the same but buyer beware, check it out first.

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My only concern is that will it not start slowly falling apart if I play a lot and also if it is a rare make that it would be difficult to find parts/repair??

Let me know what you think, a picture attached.
thanks. tonya

That is why you are going to get your favorite local technician to inspect this one previous to purchase.

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That is why you are going to get your favorite local technician to inspect this one previous to purchase.

Yes, but I thought of asking you guys first as a) the make is not on the german piano makes log book of whatever it is : b) I didn't want to inspect half of the Scotlands pianos before I knew a bit more about the make itself.
I really liked it, I must admit. I had a look inside, as far as I could see, some of the tuning pins were a little bit rusty, the dampers/hammers were not in perfect line -up, some of the were a little bit croocked. The damper felts had just little dents from the strings on them, I would have thought those were changed at some point. Strings were not rusty,.. it had a net kind of materia on the back instead of a soundboard, but I believe old pianos were made like this.

I am still thinking of my options, he he