Roger, > Now as a dealer, I think it would be cheaper to buy a new piano, but >it's >not going to happen. First purchases we made after we went into business: 50 folding chairs ($500), a new pickup, a new Kawai GS-30. We had a rebuildable Steinway M awaiting our attention, but figured we should put our money where our mouth was. We paid on the truck and the piano for the next _seven_ years, but we learned how to tune, voice and maintain a new piano and had something good to move pianos with. Years later we sold the truck to a grateful friend who basically paid us what we had into it, and the piano to a rental customer who insisted it was better than any other Kawai in the whole SF bay area (it wasn't for sale, but he had to have it). Fortunately we knew about a GS-50 that was for sale and used the income from the GS-30 to pay for it _and_ our living expenses for a couple of months! Then we rebuilt the M and sold it. The neat thing about having a really good piano at home is that it affects your standards in a positive way. . > The third piano in the chain will cost money, but it will be the day to >day supervision that I will be subjected to, each time Marie comes to work. > Now that's expensive. <grin> If that's the only time you get day to day supervision from your spouse you're LUCKY! Diane ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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