need help finding someone to handle the sale of an antique piano [View all]

soooo. i bought this gorgeous piano. i dont play, yet, but it is a gorgeous object.
1 reason i’m not making progress is that i have tiny hands, and a kink in my rt arm. (also cuz i’m not rly trying. subject for a diff group.)
these days u can get scaled down keyboards. it was my plan to replace/reconfigure the keys. there arent many ppl who do it, or have even heard of it. but i found my way to a couple of the big guys, and they refuse to touch it cuz they think it’s a crime against history. the thing was built in the 1780’s for the french court. ok, fine. i cant argue, it belongs in a museum. so i decided i’d sell it and buy something else.

well, i am having no luck figuring out how to sell it. i started at sotheby’s. they said- we agree it’s a valuable piano, but we dont deal w pianos, at all. suggested i need to find someone who specializes in them. asked a couple of the folks i’d been dealing w. nada.
i’ve found a few on the web, but no nibbles. tried a couple of the bigger chi auction houses, likewise, no joy.

any ideas? i mean, if i make a good faith effort to get it where it shd b, and cant, maybe they’ll alter it for me. or maybe i can find someone else.
it’s in pretty good shape, tho it needs what old pianos need. it’ll b some coin if i keep it. fine.

i rly do feel like an ass to keep it to myself. but if i’m stuck, i’m stuck.

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