Sounds good to Me.

[Roy Ulrich]

2 cents worth:  Yesterday I attempted to tune a 40 year old Gulbransen
console for a customer who was purchasing it from his brother in law, I was
also asked to determine the purchase price. Half step flat (at least) and
one continuous crack along the bottom pins in the bass bridge.

Recurring theme: the instrument is trading hands because "his daughter lost
interest in piano." That was guaranteed to be the result by not having any
tuning or service for years! How often do you get a phone call asking if you
know of an inexpensive piano for sale - "We don't want to spend too much
until we see if he/she is interested."

So, "some piano is better than no piano"?
Not really.

Roy Ulrich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:05 AM
Subject: Re:Sounds good to Me.


>
>
> Ron Lindquist wrote:
>
> > Some Piano is better than no Piano
> >
> > >
>
> We are all of course entitled to our own opinions and evalutations. I do
not
> subscribe to the above statement at all. There is a point where "some
piano"
> really becomes "no piano". Where each of us choose to draw that line is
really
> our own buisness...at least to a point. Acceptance by tecnicians of sub
(and I
> mean SUB) standard quality in workmanship and material contributes to the
> detriment of our industry, and I wont be a part of that. Period.
>
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
>
>