Very Scary Instrument Thought

[Robert Goodale]

A number of years ago when I ran the rebuilding shop for a dealer I 
arrived one morning to find this huge old Wurlitzer harp sitting in the 
middle of the floor.  There were no strings on the instrument.  The man 
who owned it bought it for his wife for "decorating their house."  I 
never spoke with the owner directly, I was simply "instructed" to 
install piano strings on the harp.  Oh.... goody.   For most of the day 
I struggled to bend piano wire so that it would fit on the thing and 
somehow make it look like it belonged there.  They wanted bass strings 
on it too which looked really stupid.   When I finished it looked 
nothing short of ridiculous but I was told that the owner was 
"delighted".  Wee for them.

Rob Goodale, RPT
Las Vegas, NV



Farrell wrote:

>In our home, we just remodeled our dining room. My wife and I both had the same thought of setting a nice old cello in the corner for decoration - an old one of very little value (definately less than $100).
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>Then this scary thought came over me. I asked my wife if she wanted it to be playable. She said yes, of course. Then I thought that we were being just like those crazy PSO (well, POS really) people most of us deal with that go and buy an old junk grand for $500 and ask "oh, just make it work, we don't really play it, but we would just like the keys to work".
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