The most common repair to the cabinet is refinishing. It is also the single most expensive item. Typically refinishing costs $1000.00 per foot. You have a 36" spinet, expect to spend $3000.00. It does not enhance the tone nor performance of the instrument. I have yet to hear of a circumstance where a piano that was not tunable, became so after refinishing. Yet people continue to spend thousands on the finish before realizing it will take thousands moreto make the piano serviceable. By the time a piano's finish needs repair, it often requires other repairs as well. You can easily wind up spending more than the market value. Before plopping down three to nine thousand dollars on the appearance, you will be well advised to have a piano tech look it over. Only after determining the true cost of the repair, can you know what your sentimental attachment is worth.
still have beautiful tone. A piano can look good, but have a hollow tone as in the case of a particle board spinet. But a piano must, must hold a tune. When Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis sang a duet one had a rich full voice, the other was shallow harsh. Yet they harmonized because they were both in tune. F.Y.I., occasionally a piano looks like it fell off a truck because it did fall off a truck!
was cut by an artist of the day. The lyrics were printed right on the paper so you could add your voice to that of the piano’s. The concept of a karaoke machine has only been around for about hundred and twenty years.