SCARY plastic flanges

[Farrell]

About two weeks ago I went to tune a piano for a woman that had just bought
a 1950ish Gulbranson console. Several notes not working. Broken plasitc butt
flanges. Broken plastic jacks. Broken plastic damper flanges. Broken plastic
backchecks. I told her I could fix the few broken ones, but the others will
soon likely break. I told her it would cost more than $500 to replace all
the plastic parts and adjust everything properly. She freaked and said she
only paid $400 for the piano. She agreed with me that it was not worth doing
anything with it. She kinda freaked me then when she said "someone will pay
$400 for it because it is such a nice looking piano". Ohhh geeezzzzz - she's
gonna sell it without saying anything to the buyer! How many hands will this
piano go through before it goes to the dump or becomes a planter? Should I
post the serial number in case one of you see it shortly?????????

Scary stuff.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Driscoll" <tomtuner@mediaone.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: plastic flanges


> Ditto to the previous posts. What about the Jacks and Backchecks?  You can
> reach the point of diminishing returns quickly !   Is it a Winter?   Tom
> Driscoll
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JIMRPT@AOL.COM>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 4:39 PM
> Subject: Re: plastic flanges
>
>
> >
> > In a message dated 09/08/01 7:19:36 PM, Tvak@AOL.COM writes:
> >
> > <<" Must I replace all the flanges if I want to sleep at
> > night after selling this piano?">>
> >
> > Tom;
> >  That depends on whether you want pleasant dreams or nightmares! :-)
> > Yes, replace them........... it really doesn't take that long, isn't all
> that
> > expensive and you will feel much better about it.
> > My view.
> > Jim Bryant (FL)
>