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Greetings,
IDEA: Goodwill or a charitable organizational thrift shops: Alot
of stores like this will get people who are chomping at the bit to donate
thier piano, but some of these stores dont want to handle
them.(moving/storage/will-we-be-able-to-off this-piano? /
No-one-here-at-our-organization-knows-anything-about-the-sellable-condition-worthiness-of-pianos).
Contact all these type stores in the area, even say, some
located 50 miles away in areas who havent been hit by the hurricanes. Send a note
along with your business card asking them to contact you if any pianos surface.
Or the gal's parents could contact them by mail. Whoever sends the initial
contact by mail, should follow up with a phonecalls to the stores' cheif
managers. If you offer a small finder's fee, say $50, as a donation to their charity,
they may take you up on it. If all works out, then, you go pick up the piano,
straight from the donor's residence. The charity makes the donation and
doesn't have to deal with the piano. If all they have to do is make a phone call for
the $50 a conscientious manager will keep their eyes peeled. Its a win-win.
Julia,
Reading, PA
In a message dated 11/24/2004 2:17:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I have become aware of a 12 year-old girl in Wachula, Florida (south-central
> area of state) who was a promising intermediate-level piano student until
> Hurricane Charlie claimed the life of her old upright piano. Her
> hurricane-damaged mobile home collapsed well after the hurricane and the family had been
> living in a shelter for some time. Only recently has FEMA provided the family a
> small trailer for them to live in.
>
> I went to tune a piano this morning that a local woman was going to donate
> to the little girl. Unfortunately, I had to report to the woman that the cost
> of repairing her childhood piano would exceed the value of the piano. She
> could not afford to do that.
>
> So now the 12 year old girl has no piano and her farming family cannot
> afford to buy her one. Is anyone aware of a good condition low cost or free piano
> in or near Florida?
>
> Thanks for any help or ideas.
>
> Terry Farrell
>
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