[Barrie Heaton]

The History forum is for asking questions on your piano's history or general piano history, this includes the dating of pianos where possible. However, please search the site first as there is quite a lot on piano history in the main history section, and what you seek may be already there.

There are two types of searches available to you. The Search The Site link to the left of this page will search the entire 4,000+ pages of the UK Piano Page, indexed by Google. Or use the Search link at the top of any forum page to search this forum only.

Please put the name of the piano in the subject heading when posting. We may alter subject titles to reflect the subject matter.

Valuations are very difficult to give without seeing the piano, as they depend on make, age, condition and local market forces, most of which are not available to us, so if you ask, you will probably not get an answer. If you do, it will be a wild guess.

Placing photos into your message on the forum

As we don’t allow direct uploading of photos, you will need some web space to point the forum to. The simplest way it to go to Image Shack http://www.imageshack.us/ and upload your photo there, it is free.

Just click on the Browse Button, find the image on your computer, then click on “Host it “, it will upload it for you. It will then take you to a page which will give you the code to paste into your message on the forum. The best one to use is clickable thumbnail.

[A plea from Bill Kibby: Please label your photos properly when you use up space on the net, so other people can find them by name and subject.]

If you have any complaints about the site or would like to write a review for others to read, you can use trustgauge.com
http://reviews.trustgauge.com/reviews.aspx?d=uk-piano.org
Or use the guest book.

AOL users are having problems posting - "INVALID SESSION" - it's AOL not us! :(

AOL send the IP of the cache being browsed, and not the proper IP address of the user. Because this site is popular, we are in most AOL caches so as you
move from page to page, the forum gets a different IP address. This causes the security features of the forum get upset, and give you an invalid session. It thinks you are trying to hack the forum. Sorry, but we need the security in place.

For more in-depth explanation see here... http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=54

Barrie