Hi Paul, A new Samick 5'4" usually is $10K-$12K. A 5'7" Samick $12K-$14K. Roughly, depending upon finish. William R. Monroe On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu > wrote: > Ryan, > > This sounds a bit high to me as well. I think a whole stack could be done > for more like $5-6 K with complete action geometry included. I doubt this > piano is so far out that it would need a complete geometry overhaul as well. > At this point, the piano is so far messed up that anything at all would > drasically help the poor old thing. If 7,500 was the quote, I would > seriously tempt her with replacing the piano! What does a new Samick > (previously DH Baldwin) go for these days. We were talking yesterday that > she would probably expect a $15K sticker price for a new one of that size > (about 5'6") That gets to the 50% rebuilding cost of new quote I heard > earlier, which I agree with, unless a real gem of a piano that would bring > the piano back to amazing. This one will never be amazing, sadly. > > Thanks for all the input folks! > Paul > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100902/f41426a2/attachment-0001.htm>
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