Liability advice- Missing the Point

[Billbrpt@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 9/7/99 8:06:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time, you write:

<< People have a right to expect a certain degree of professionalism from 
technicians,
 and in turn I think technicians have a right to expect a certain degree of
 seriousness from their customers. Customers who are interested in getting a 
super
 piano for 49.95 can look elsewhere. Just not my bag.
 
 Richard Brekne >>

More *à propos* words have never been written.  Great responses, Richard.  At 
long last, I would have to say that the object of this discussion is a 
notoriously poorly made excuse for a piano.  It does not compare with 
Kimballs, Wurlitzers, Acrosonics, Cable-Nelsons, even those dear little Betsy 
Ross spinets with the nice, broken plastic elbows that we can all earn nice, 
good pay for replacing and making people happy with the piano they have, 
know, are used to, still want and generally cherish.  Not even Gordon 
Laughheads and Kohler & Campbells are as bad as this.  I'd even rather have a 
Cable, than one of these.

The condition described is fairly common in these instruments and these 
alone.  This product, (it does not qualify as being a real musical 
instrument), was not meant to last more than 15-20 years.  It is already 
beyond its time.  Most of the pianos in the above list are still functioning. 
 There you have it and that is the difference.  There were indeed poorly made 
American pianos but almost none of them are around anymore to even be a 
problem.

The ones which are alive and well today deserve the respect and the 
professional skills of qualified craftsmen.  It is a very good way to make 
good pay and have many very satisfied customers, just to perform the most 
basic of a piano technician's skills routinely, day after day.

But this particular piano, which should have been simply discarded, does not 
deserve to be repaired.  I'd even go so far as to say that I have finally, on 
this List, come to the example of a piano that I would say truly deserved the 
acronym, "PSO".

Bill Bremmer RPT
Madison, Wisconsin