At 11:23 AM 2/17/99 -0600, you wrote: >Bingo! > >Purchasing pianos for learning, practicing, improving and/or maintaining >one's skills, and then reselling them at a later date, is an age old method >of doing business. It's going on all the time. > >Keith McGavern Bingo? Well maybe or maybe not. I have purchased or been given a total of 5 pianos. I have rebuilt 3 of them and I am working on number 4. I have not been able to sell any of them. It seems that in this neck of the woods, people only want to spend around $500 to buy a piano. They will spend that amount on some old clunker that is in need or major repairs, but are unwilling to spend more on a rebuilt or reconditioned piano. I am frequently phoned for advice on pianos that people wish to purchase. No one wants me to come and assess the piano which they want to purchase. In the past I have been advising them of possible problems with these old pianos. In some cases, the caller becomes irate when I suggest that there could be anything wrong at all. They usually end up buying the piano, moving it into their homes and that is the end of it. Most of them don't even want it tuned. Go figure! Terry Beckingham Associate Member PTG
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