At 09:13 PM 7/29/98 -0500, Ron Nossaman wrote: >Hi Clyde, > >I'm one of those guys who condemns them rather than try to reverse or >minimize the devastation of the last eighty years of the old beater's life >with a couple of hundred dollars in repairs. I think it ultimately boils >down to two questions. How busy are you, and how happy would you be about a >prospective rebuild customer getting a look at the results of your partial >resurrection of the poor dead beast? If you are not neglecting higher level >work to do it, aren't concerned about having your name attached to the piano >in question, and feel like you are giving the customer their money's worth >in the attempt, there isn't a problem. > >Ron The two questions: How busy am I? Not too busy to deal with a few of these old hulks now and then. How happy would I be about a prospective rebuild customer getting a look at the results of my partial resurrection of the poor dead beast? This I do not consider a problem. Anyone seeing my repairs who is worth my worrying about will understand the situation; and my repairs, though partial, will not be slipshod. Anyway, I'm serving the customer, not my own reputation. It can take care of itself just fine. Some of these "old beaters" have more life left than we give them credit for. Like others, I do explore the idea of getting a better piano when it seems appropriate. However, even in this case, some repairs are often in order, to make the old upright fit to sell. Many of them will make _someone_ a piano to play on, someone who might not have a piano at all if I didn't get the old thing working. Just my take on it .... Susan Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com
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