my own Soundboard

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Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:33:44 EST


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> Subj:Re: my own Soundboard 
> Date:1/18/2002 4:48:07 PM Pacific Standard Time
> From:<A HREF="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</A>
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>    Terry 


 I can totally relate. I LOVE the smell of sugar pine/spruce just cut up oh 
man it's good enough to eat. The happiest days in the shop is when I'm 
milling up a bunch of ribs and calculating the crown etc. And don't forget 
the smell of maple WOW. Your on a good path.

     Best--Dale Erwin

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> I thought about this a while more Dale - actually, thinking about whether I 
> should or not - and I think one of the big reasons is that I absolutely 
> LOVE working with wood. My first degree was in Forestry - that's how much I 
> love wood. If I thought about doing this five or ten years from now when I 
> am clearing $60,000 to $100,000 a year rebuilding pianos (hey, everyone 
> needs to have goals!), I could never try it because it would cost me TENS 
> of thousands of dollars (in lost wages). Dabbling with this now is much 
> easier to swallow financially because - well, let's just say I'm well below 
> the aforementioned income range. And I am just not that busy now. I am busy 
> full time, but I don't have much of a waiting line to get into my shop, so 
> I can wiggle this kind of stuff in.
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> And it adds significantly to the romance of piano rebuilding. That is 
> important to me.
>  
> Terry Farrell  
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