@dusepo Aha, yes the strings are not good early music strings definitely. Could be all wrong, as you say. I need to see what the shop wants to do: the focus is on maximising the value of the donation, of course. But that usually does not extend to fixing or improving anything. Or anything beyond cleaning, to be honest. They might say it should be sold as seen.I need to talk to them a bit. All they want is an answer to ‘what price’ but I know there are too many unknowns yet.