Loren, After over 30 yrs. in this business, I never assume anything. That's why I asked! :-D Avery At 05:14 PM 6/13/2006, you wrote: >Terry, > >I was one of those types 25 years ago. I was working full time and >overtime. Had an overwhelming checking account and no time to spend >it. Then grandma's piano came into our family's life. I only had >time to check with a couple of local tuners. I wanted them to tune, >assess the piano and give me an estimate to make it like new. I got >no takers, however it must be stated that I did not go very far with >this as I didn't have the time and didn't even know how to pursue >this except to contact the few tuners in the local yellow pages. > >What developed was our family jumped into the old Buick station >wagon one Sunday afternoon and hit several piano places in the >Seattle-Tacoma area. The problem was they saw us and "qualified" us >thinking we could only afford to spend about a grand, when we were >thinking perhaps an amount of ten times that and had the cash. We >did purchase a new piano, a Baldwin R, for cash but not from the >"qualifiers" and have enjoyed it as a family for 26 years. > >The moral of this is to remember that "stuffed suits" are often only >that, and the guy driving the old Buick and wearing bib overalls may >have heart of gold and a pocket book to match. So if I were the >technician involved I would not assume anything, but would ask what >their long term intentions are for the piano. You might be >pleasantly surprised. > >Loren Hedahl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060613/8f8fd477/attachment.html
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