---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 12:01 PM -0500 8/18/02, Alan R. Barnard wrote: > a fictional overdamper sitting in an unheated/uncooled garage in >New Orleans for 40 years. I might, in such a case, tell the caller >that I would charge a service call fee if we didn't end up >tuning/repairing it. I actually had a customer who had stored a >piano in New Orleans as I described but it was an old Gulbransen >spinet. ALL of the flanges and whippen elbows were made of that old >plastic that crumbles to dust. Oddly, because it was "Mom's Piano" >they paid me to replace all the flanges and elbows and I now tune it >every six months--even though the piano certainly did not have >enough resale value to justify the expense. Now why does everyone pick on New Orleans when they want a picture of neglect and decay? I have seen a piano stored in a shed in Jamaica Plain (frozen then overheated) that was in much worse shape than any I've seen in the South, barring the sad case of the rosewood S&S square that had been kept on a patio under a tarp for the two years since Mama passed. It about broke my heart........ -- ----Dave ----------------------------- Dave Doremus RPT New Orleans algiers_piano@bellsouth.net ------------------------------ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/78/31/41/87/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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