---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 7/20/2004 5:20:02 PM Central Standard Time, severanc@mail.wsu.edu writes: We recently had a small (less than 6' ) Mason Welte Reproducer with 200 rolls donated to the Music school. Everything is there but needs totally rebuilt, including the piano. Does anyone want to give me a ballpark figure that I can give this fellow for his tax return? I would guess the piano might bring $900.00 without the reproducer. It's not a Mason & Hamlin, just a Mason. Dave Severance School of Music Washington State University Purely for tax purposes, on your private letterhead, (or get another tuner to do this), you can put a value of $15,000 for this piano This figure is based on the fact that a new "player piano," made by the same company (Mason & Hamlin), now sells for around $45,000, and this piano would be worth roughly one-third as much, given depreciation, etc. Please, don't tell me the piano isn't worth that much. I know it is. Rebuilding the reproducer alone is going to cost $7500, and to rebuild the piano will cost another $15,000. But as I said, this is for tax purposes. The IRS is not going to sell it, and they won't question the "official" documentation from a professional piano tuner, unless someone file a complaint. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/1a/fd/d2/27/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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