> >Rob, > >At 20:43 12/30/2002 -0800, you wrote: >>I brought home a very expensive free piano late last night. This is an >>old piano that my step father had acquired decades ago in Texas and then >>transported to California. Eventually this piano found it's way to a >>garage about one mile from the central California coast where it rested >>on it's side on a cold concrete floor for the better part of 13 years. ><mega schnipp> >>Upon closer examination this thing will require a LOT of work to turn it >>back into a piano again. The stings and multiple other metallic surfaces >>are rusted badly from the salt air. It will undoubtedly need a new pin >>block. The finish is a beyond repair and will require complete >>stripping. Fortunately the soundboard and bridges look pretty good so >>long as it survives the drying out process in the Las Vegas >>environment. Okay fine, it didn't cost anything did it? I mean it was >>free and all wasn't it? > >Gee, that saga sounds like a variation on a theme, or >deja-vu-all-over-again of my Krakauer acquisition last Christmas. I only >had to tow _that_ trailer about 1100 miles from Philly. > >(It's still on it's side with the only word done so far being routing the >bottom for new(used) leg plates.) It's a round tuit job... > > > >Conrad Hoffsommer > >Early to rise: early to bed; >Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.
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