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No. Unlike the furniture seen on the Antiques Road Show, pianos were designed to be functional, i.e. produce music. Without a careful and complete restoration, these instruments will never perform the way they were designed. Therefore, a completely restored instrument is much more valuable than an unrestored old piano.
