Wayne, from your unfortunate story, I don't know what the bigger P.O.S. is - -the piano or the owner! In cases like this I tell the customer your wasting your child's time with this piano and throwing the piano lesson money out the window - -the child will never develop into a pianist on a piano like this, and any good feeling for music that he/she has will be snuffed out. I use an analogy: I tell them that when the child reaches the age for driving lessons, would you be content if the driving instructor pulled up in an old, beat up Dodge Dart with 4 flat tires, smoke pouring out of the exhaust, and an engine so worn that the car could go only 20 mph? Would you reason that your child is only a beginner driver, and doesn't need a real good car? As a last resort, I tell the customer that cruelty to children is a crime, and that by making him/her play on such a piano, you're guilty of it. Jesse Gitnik NYC Since 1980 ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070326/a185de92/attachment.html
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