Buying a piano

[Avery Todd]

Hi Patrick

I've already sent this to Terry since he'd responded but here's what
I found out tonight.

Avery

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Well, I just talked to the guy and he'd had someone else out to his
house today and from what he said, I think the basic problem is that
it's badly out of tune. At least, that's what the guy told him. The
customer said that he was an older type guy who's a custodian somewhere
but had been around and (I guess worked on) pianos for many years. And
he only charges $65.00 for a tuning. I charge $80.00 and I'm underpricing
myself! Does that tell you anything about him? He just seems really
strange and I didn't really want to go look at it anyway. The university
has a "relationship" with the 3 major dealers here and I have to be pretty
careful what I do. Especially if I don't have permission. But I do have a
good relationship with the Steinway dealer so I wasn't really worried about
it. I did find out, however, that it's a 5'1" model (I don't know what that's
called). But at least he seems happy with what the guy told him and it lets
me off the hook. :-)


At 08:24 PM 06/06/03 -0400, you wrote:

>On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 08:02  PM, Avery Todd wrote:
>
>>List
>>
>>But while we're on that general subject, does anyone have any "comments" to
>>make about the new Bostons?
>
>Well, a local school got a GP 163 several months ago. Seemed OK at the 1st 
>tuning but when I noted some damper leakage during a tuning last week I 
>found the damper levers flanges to be *incredibly* loose. After some 
>serious screw tightening everything was OK.
>I had assumed the Bostons would have *some* prep work done before delivery 
>but I guess they're saving that attention for "real S&Ss" and no-discount 
>private purchasers.
>Otherwise the few Bostons I've seen & serviced have been pretty decent.
>
>Patrick Draine