In a message dated 4/20/99 7:03:14 AM !!!First Boot!!!, JTTUNER@webtv.net writes: << When an old piano is beyond repair, how do you advise the customer to get rid of it? Is it safe for a customer to tear it apart on their own? Jim >> I wouldn't recommend telling a customer to take the strings off, or even remove the plate from the back assembly. But you can suggest that loose case parts can be made into coffee tables, legs into lamps, and they can save the hinges, if they are into such a thing. Most of the time the piano belonged to a deceased relative. So I tell them that I have been authorized to give a piano last rites, and I recommend that they do the same thing to the piano that they did to the deceased relative, and give it a decent burial. Willem Blees
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