Fwd: A.B. Chase Piano

[Alan Barnard]

No Blue Book on pianos. Bottom line: It's worth what you can get a buyer to
pay.

Around here (rural Missouri)? $300 to 600 hundred--maybe a little more if
the furniture is real pretty and doesn't need refinishing--and you aren't
in a hurry to sell it.

Radio call-in "swap meet" shows can work and try ads in the free-pick-me-up
newspapers like "Thrifty Nickle" or whatever is in your area. Ask around to
find out who teaches piano lessons (church musicians often do) and maybe
send them a flyer with pictures they can show students/parents, etc. Be
creative rather than spending a lot on ads, etc.

Try this for an ad: "FREE PIANO! or, with strings, $750" (Just kidding, I
think...) 

Quote a little high, let them "talk you down a little" so they feel like
they got a deal. 

Where do you live?

Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri


> [Original Message]
> From: Matt Pierson <jazzguymatt@yahoo.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 06/06/2005 10:50:10 PM
> Subject: Fwd: A.B. Chase Piano
>
>
> I own an A.B. Chase upright piano, circa 1890 or so.
>
> Serial #23997.
>
> I am interested in selling it, and would like to find
> out how you would suggest I go about it.  In addition,
> I'd like to know a rough price range that the
> instrument may be worth.  It is all original, in very
> good condition.
>  
> Thanks.
>
> Matt Pierson
>
>
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