P.O.I.

[Susan Kline]

Hi, Ed

I've done a few jobs, fixing up pianos about to be sent to offspring, 
usually when someone is moving from a big house, or when the youngsters are 
getting a place of their own.

Immediately after the P.O.I. is also a logical time to work on a piano. The 
younger (often not _young_) generation now has the piano, grandma didn't 
get it worked on for whatever reason, and now they have to decide what to 
do with it. This is a time when promising but worn and beat up pianos can 
be rescued, and when one can help a family get acquainted with an 
instrument and what it can do, so some kind of bonding (other than "I 
remember grandma playing this piano") can take place -- or not, if it never 
was any good and now is way past the sell-by date as well. I've found the 
new owners usually can make a reasonable decision if they understand what 
their legacy will and won't be able to do.

Apropos of which -- time to get those Bush & Gerts keys ready to send to 
Yvonne for keytops. Third generation in the same family (a one-family 
piano), and it does need some help.

Susan