Friends: When I got home yesterday a note on my desk said, "Mrs. S, piano strings" and included a phone number. I called Mrs. S, with whom I had no former contact. Seems they bought a 1930's baby grand piano cheap, and they wanted it to look better, so they took it to a furniture refinishing man (I'll call him Mr. M, but she didn't give me his name) because he would charge only $750 to refinish it. Some time later Mrs. S got a call from Mr. M, asking if she could get him replacement piano strings. He had taken all the strings off the piano, and some of them broke, but he assured her he could put them back on if she could get him new ones. So Mrs. S is calling around, getting advice on what to do. She's calling some good people and is getting a variety of responses. As far as my feelings toward Mr. M go, I go back and forth between being incredulous and furious. I don't know what he's thinking, but I bet he lies awake at nights trying to figure a way out of this one! Care to respond? Did you ever run into something like this? Fortunately, I am the uninvolved bystander, and I intend to keep it that way! Regards, Clyde Hollinger, RPT Lititz, PA
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