Bad Pianos Are Good Pianos

[Robert Goodale]

I totally agree.  I have heard many-a-tech complain "Oh I HATE old pianos, what
a piece of JUNK....."  and so on.  I don't have much junk anymore here in Las
Vegas which is generally speaking a new city.  Most people move here, buy new
pianos, and leave the junk behind them.  When I lived in the mid west however I
used to get several bad pianos a week.  They where exhausting but I made a
fortune every time I got one.

Rob Goodale, RPT
Las Vegas, NV


Farrell wrote:

> Last Thursday I had two tuning appointments. I serviced a BAD 100 year old
> Kimball grand. The lady wanted it tuned, but it also needed keys and dampers
> fixed just so that I could tune the darn thing. Four and a half hours later
> it was tuned. Then I went to tune a NEW Baldwin Hamilton. Flat, had to align
> many hammers because they were not hitting the strings, some hammers loose
> from shanks, keys not level, etc. Three hours later tuned. I made $380 that
> day.
>
> Yesterday I had two tuning appointments. I had tuned both within the last
> year (newer Yamaha grand and an as-good-as-it-gets Kimball grand). Both
> within 4 cents of A440. Two pass tunings. Four and a half hours later
> (drive, tune, drive, tune, etc.) I had $150.
>
> I take back everything I have said about junk pianos. I LOVE THEM!!!!
>
> Terry Farrell