My wife and I are downsizing and would like to sell our unrestored
Duo-Art baby grand piano.  We acquired it some years ago from the
original owner, an elderly neighbor whose father bought it for her
when she was a girl in the 1930s, and we have not done anything with
it.  The player mechanism is not working and some of the ivories
have come loose.  It comes with 62 Duo-Art rolls, about evenly split
between regular and large size rolls, all familiar classics, stored
in a separate two-sided piece of furniture with shelves that holds the
rolls exactly with no extra space and may have come with the piano.

My own specialty is cob roller organs and I know very little about
player pianos, but I've been told by a few people more knowledgeable
than I am that even in its present condition it is of some value.
It is located at our home in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey,
about 15 miles due west of Manhattan, New York City.  If interested,
please contact me for further information or to make an appointment to
see it.  We do not have a particular price in mind, but will entertain
offers.

While I am at it, I should add that our house is also for sale.
I have never seen a house listed for sale on the MMD, but am providing
information about this one because it might be of interest to some
MMD reader because of its associations with the Edison family and the
readership would otherwise never know that it is available.  The house
is an 1872 rambling frame Queen Anne-style house with six bedrooms
(three of them small third-floor rooms), four and a half baths (all but
one of them old-fashioned and two of them small third-floor rooms with
claw-foot tubs), two wood-burning fireplaces, and a kidney-shaped
in-ground pool and large fenced yard with a separate fenced dog run
on 1.5+ wooded acres located in the exclusive, private, secure, gaslit
and historic gated community of Llewellyn Park due west of Manhattan
with a 55-minute commute by train and ferry to Wall Street and a winter
view of the New York skyline.

Its mechanical music connection is that it was the first home of Thomas
Edison's son, Charles Edison, onetime governor of New Jersey, and is
right down the road from Thomas Edison's mansion, Glenmont, a national
historic site, and a stone's throw from the former Edison factory,
right outside Llewellyn Park and now a museum.  Charles Edison bought
the house in 1920 shortly after his marriage and we have his file
relating to the house which includes a number of original legal
documents signed by Charles Edison and the blueprint for the fireplace
and built in bookcases on both sides of it in the living room which
states that they were designed for Charles Edison for his house in
Llewellyn Park in 1920.  These items will be sold with the house.

The house is old-fashioned in many respects and needs substantial
upgrading and renovation, and has been priced accordingly, with an
asking price of $750,000 (and we will entertain lower offers from
serious and qualified buyers).  However, the house is livable as is
and we have been quite happy here for the last 18 years.  Thomas Edison
was no doubt a frequent visitor here!  If you want more information or
want me to put you in touch with the broker with whom we have it
listed, please get in touch.

Richard Dutton
West Orange, New Jersey