phone diagnosis // email appraisal

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

Joel,

At 10:04 AM 10/3/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>List,
>
>No doubt I will be making a service call, so roll a few more $$ on the bill.?
>
>How do you all view this situation?
>
>Joel

Your mileage charge just went up didn't it???? ;-}



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Just got the e-mail equivalent of phone fixes.

>Hello, My grandmother recently passed away and left a Mehlin & Sons 1920's 
>Grand Piano to the family. It's Mahogany and was in the Long Beach Opera 
>House for some time. I am interested in selling it and was wondering if 
>you would be so kind as to give a range estimate of it's value. It looks 
>and works great, probably a 7+ in overall condition. It has an electronic 
>player that uses cassettes, but I've heard that's probably a liability and 
>not an asset. Any thoughts on the value of the top of your head? My Uncle 
>sold it for $600, which I think is extremely low, but I might be able to 
>buy it back and resell it. If it's only worth 3 or 4 K I may not bother, 
>but if it's worth much more, I would. My parents bought it from a piano 
>dealer about 15 years ago for 8K.
>Thanks for any insight.


I have no clue as to:

-Size
-location
-"electronic player"

Yup, it's a Monday.




Conrad Hoffsommer
I tried to get a life once, but they were all out of stock.