HF Miller Rebuild

[Avery Todd]

Hi Les,

   Aaaaarg!!!!  Maybe if I keep trying I'll finally get it right. :-)
Sorry about all the confusion.

The piano is in Wisconsin.
The man who called me is in Houston.
He was asking me if I thought a Henry F. Miller 6' grand was *worth*
rebuilding. Not whether the price was fair.
The actual work could be done in Wisconsin OR Houston.

   Now. As far as the K & C is concerned, I asked him if he had priced
other brands in that size and if so, how much were they? He said around
$18,000. or so. And I said, well........ maybe there's a *reason* there's
such a difference in price! He got my point.
   I also told him I wouldn't even consider giving him any kind of a
reasonably firm estimate without seeing the piano first. He understood.
   So, enough said. I'll pass on the opinions I've received about the
brand(s) and he can make his decision from there.
   Thanks for all the input.

Avery

>I think we all assumed that YOU were going to do the rebuilding. If I
>understand the situation now, it goes something like this: The people
>in Wisconsin are asking you advise them whether the price being
>charged by a technician you have never met, and the quality of whose
>work you don't know, to rebuild a piano you haven't seen, is fair and
>reasonable and will result in an instrument which will play and sound
>better than a new K&C grand they are looking at. Is it just me, or does
>it sound like maybe they should be calling one of those 900 Psychic
>Hotline numbers instead?
>
>Les Smith
>lessmith@buffnet.net


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Avery Todd, RPT
Moores School of Music
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-4893
713-743-3226
atodd@uh.edu
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