Dear Morcel, A colleague of mine has just goone through the same experience he was working on a 25 year old knight piano and the frame went. At the first the customer apparently did not seem to be concerned but several days later my colleague received a letter threatening legal action unless he replaced like with like. Unfortumately my colleague is only an associate members of the ABPT and therefore is not covered by our all risks musical instrument insureance scheme. To his credit though, he had the forsight to take out his own public liability insureance, he contacted his insureance company to see if he was covered and the insureance company sent round a loss adjuster and sistress analysis engineer, who advised that this plate failure was due to metal fatiigue and not to my colleague's incompetence. This took placde in Febvruary of this year and as I am aware the matter has been resolved in my colleagues favour. Hope this is of some help if you wish I can contact my colleague and he may correspond with your friend. I know this is English law however, overseas presidence can carry weight in U.S. Courts. Regards, Barrie. In article <199704012136.QAA09186@multi-medias.ca>, Marcel Carey <mcpiano@multi-medias.ca> writes >Les, > >The piano "WAS" an old no name upright. The owner bought it 2 years ago for >$2,000.00. He probably is the one who got "F*****" but I think he is trying >to pass it along. He never had it tuned since he bought it. And it is a >small claim case. I should have clarified. > >Thanks for the input, > >Marcel Carey, RPT > > -- Barrie Heaton | Be Environmentally Friendly URL: http://www.airtime.co.uk/forte/piano.htm | To Your Neighbour The UK PIano Page | pgp key on request | HAVE YOUR PIANO TUNED
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