Value of Broadwood Upright

What is the value of a John Broadwood upright piano, S/N 105328 ? Or generally speaking, what was the general 'quality' of the Broadwood upright line from the early 1900's?

The other question of course is: Is it worth the money to get tuned and regulated?

I assume you are in England, as that is where Broadwoods are generally found. Reputedly the old Broadwoods were of quite decent quality, and the company was an innovator- possibly the first real manufacturer in England. As for your other question, no upright from the early 1900s has any cash value. If you have need of a piano and this is on hand, you have very little to lose by having a tech take a look and tell you what it will cost to tune it. Regulation may well be unrealistically expensive, but the tech who tunes it can tell you.

Gerry

I am in the background all the time I just look at the headers have not got time to read as much as I would like.

Most are rubbish but they have nice cases and that is what sells

Well you would only be getting your own back after all them Birdcages we sent over in the 70's 80's

Well Johann Christoph Zumpe was the first mass producer in England c1760 he made the piano popular in Europe not many of them around now he was to the piano what Hover was to the vacuum cleaner in is hay day. But in 100 years you will say Hover don't you mean Dyson ! soon forgot. Then you had Kirkman who made pianos c1742

As for Collard he worked for Clementi but as usual he got the company by marring Just like Broadwood and Kirkman who worked for Table BTW they all can be traced back to Silberman who read Mafrei's article on Cristofori's piano and took over where Cristofori left off. Now if the Germans did not have the Severn Year war and the French did not like chopping heads off The piano industry probably would have been small in England like it is today

BTW remember the Bechstein Grand with the 7 cracks we did not do that one but we did not have to wait long this one had 2 cracks in the frame I will post some photos of the stitching, works well the piano was pulled up from 0 to *A445 in 20 mins and all was OK now back down to A440 and stableish

* A change of underwear was keep to hand just in case.

Take care