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splitbus1965
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 Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject: bentley piano help |
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hello everybody ,this is my first post so any help and advice would be great,can anybody give me some history or tell me the age of a bentley piano number 103104
here are some photos of it
any info regarding age value etc would be great,thanks in advance and keep up the great work members  |
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PianoGuy
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It's called a Compact 85.
Whip the top door (front) off and gently lift out the lowermost key. The completion date will be written in pencil on the side of it. Without looking the number up I'd guess at early 1960s. |
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splitbus1965
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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| PianoGuy wrote: | It's called a Compact 85.
Whip the top door (front) off and gently lift out the lowermost key. The completion date will be written in pencil on the side of it. Without looking the number up I'd guess at early 1960s. |
cheers thanks for your help have you any idea of what the market value is of this??? |
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PianoGuy
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Not without seeing it.
This model was fitted with one of the worst actions ever devised. Some examples seem to self-destruct due to the poor choice of plastics used for shock-bearing components. Some survive and may be worth up to £500 if absolutely perfect, but many are scrap value only. Average price offered by dealer is £250 but you'll find the same pianos offered for sale for about a grand in their showrooms. This reflects the work that often needs to be done to them to get them playable.
Yours looks to have problems in the extreme treble. |
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splitbus1965
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| PianoGuy wrote: | Not without seeing it.
This model was fitted with one of the worst actions ever devised. Some examples seem to self-destruct due to the poor choice of plastics used for shock-bearing components. Some survive and may be worth up to £500 if absolutely perfect, but many are scrap value only. Average price offered by dealer is £250 but you'll find the same pianos offered for sale for about a grand in their showrooms. This reflects the work that often needs to be done to them to get them playable.
Yours looks to have problems in the extreme treble. |
thanks mate for the fast reply,how can you tell off photos that there is problems with extreme treble??sorry if this is a stupid question but the world of pianos is very new to me!
thanks once again for your help |
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PianoGuy
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Just thought that the last sharp on the keyboard looked a bit saggy!
You really need a decent tuner to look at it if you're intending to play it. Where are you? |
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splitbus1965
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| just live on the outskirts of Preston lancs |
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Openwood
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| We've got one of these in a practice room. I have to say that, considering it's age, it works bloody well and makes a nice sound. Warm and not at all like the institutional Knights etc of the same generation. It's been in the school since the 1970s and still functions perfectly well, which I guess is some kind of credit to the makers, however bad the action is! Mind you, I learned on one of those Bentleys with the inward curving panels and that was absolute shite. I've still got it in the back of my old man's shop. When I think about it, that all works too. That was the age when British-built meant something, my boy. Yeah, I know about Kembles but I don't like 'em so bog off. |
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PianoGuy
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Openwood wrote: | | We've got one of these in a practice room. I have to say that, considering it's age, it works bloody well and makes a nice sound. Warm and not at all like the institutional Knights etc of the same generation. It's been in the school since the 1970s and still functions perfectly well, which I guess is some kind of credit to the makers, however bad the action is! |
Yeah....
The good ones seem to go on and on........ |
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splitbus1965
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PianoGuy
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| PianoGuy wrote: | | Average price offered by dealer is £250 |
Yours appeared to realise something in this ballpark then, I see!? |
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sussexpianos
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| i like them myself:) |
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PianoGuy
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| sussexpianos wrote: | | i like them myself:) |
You're weird.
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sussexpianos
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what do you expect? I work in the piano industry !!  |
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PianoGuy
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| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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| sussexpianos wrote: | | what do you expect? I work in the piano industry !! |
Good point, well made! |
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