Moved a PSO

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

Contact SAMA, give them your sales tax ID and get a bid from them for 
a rebuild.  They do good casework.  I'd get an expert to make a good 
scale for it (they re-string but don't rescale), keep the action and 
replace/rebuild it myself.  If you want, SAMA will re-bush and 
re-felt the action for you.  They will also hang new hammers for you 
too.  $5 to $8 g.s (depending on how much you do and your markup) and 
they have a new piano.

If they don't want to do that you have to decide to carefully limit 
your warranty to what you actually do because they will try to suck 
you in for a whole lot more...  Be very clear about what you are 
doing and how much(little) difference it will make.

Good Luck,
Andrew



At 09:30 AM 6/13/2008, you wrote:
>Okay list,
>
>I moved my first grand (baby) yesterday.  It was indeed a PSO, 
>although, I would like to swap the "S" and "O" in that 
>acronym.  This piano has no name.  It does have a serial number, but 
>no name.  The strings are rusted (six were already broken), pins are 
>rusted, damper felts coming off.  The hammers looked okay.  I will 
>be making a service call soon to give it a complete evaluation and 
>estimate.  The seller was asking $350, but they got it to $300.  I 
>probably wouldn't of spent over $200 for the thing.  I just hope the 
>new owner understands why they got it so "cheap".  I didn't try to 
>depress 'em by telling them they should of consulted me first.  The 
>deal was already done, what can you do?
>
>My real question is, what do you do when you cannot find a 
>brand?  How do you estimate the year, or decade at least?  Do ya'll 
>have customers with these kind of pianos, or am I one of the few 
>that's cursed?  I guess I'm not cursed if I agree to help 'em.
>
>Matthew