Over-Damper Uprights and Square Grand Bashing!!!

[pianolover 88]

But in  my day to day experience, birds and squares are extremely rare. 
third most rarely encountered are old players, and I usually DO service 
those. Of course, your encounters of the first two may be much more frequent 
in your neck o the woods, but not around here, thank goodness!

Terry Peterson



----Original Message Follows----
From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu>
Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Subject: Re: Over-Damper Uprights and Square Grand Bashing!!!
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:29:43 -0600

At 09:40 11/16/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>If you have a barrel of 1,000 apples, and 2 are rotten
>(birds/squares) and someone offers to pay you to eat them, I would
>pass every time in favor of the 998 palatable one remaining, even if
>they offered to pay me twice as much as the going price for the
>"good" apples. That's my choice; I know SOMEBODY will probably 
take
>the offer, and that's ok by me.
>
>Terry Peterson


Yup, 2/1000 = .2%  Pretty insignificant, to be sure.

But if there are only 50 apples available, those 2 are 4%...
Not so insignificant.

Just like in the pricing thread, you've got to know your market.




Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT, MPT, CCT, PFP, ACS, CRS.
Decorah, IA

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