----- Original Message ----- From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: September 06, 2001 10:03 AM Subject: Re: Old parts for repair practice > You might want to consider just buying an older piano - grand or vertical. > That way you will have a full spectrum of things to fix - you can renew any > part of it - even if it isn't broke - anything would often be an > improvement. That way you can practice regulation and a whole host of > procedures that are only possible if you have the parts installed in the > piano. You might even make a few bucks afterward - especially if it work > afterwards! Just a thought. > > Terry Farrell > ----------------------------------------------------------- Wait a minute--didn't somebody back there just offer a Bush & Lane upright free to a good home? Yes, actually, I think they did. And, didn't that somebody also live in Indiana? Why, yes, as a matter of fact, they did: Gordon Holley <gholley@hi-techhousing.com> of Goshen, Indiana, I'd like you to meet James Turner <JTTUNER@webtv.net> of Somewhere, Indiana. Jim, meet Gordy. You two need to get together sometime. At least I'd think it was worth the trip down to Somewhere with a U-Haul or whatever to pick up a B&L upright to practice on. When I was finished--assuming I'd done a decent job--I'd have one of the best uprights ever built (with the exception of my own, of course). Even if the top has been kind of cut down and turned into a mirror. I could use that to comb what's left of my hair. Regards, Del
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