should I repair, replace, retreat, or recommend a recking ball on Thomas vertical?

[Barbara Richmond]

There is no future for the piano.  There was one in my area, that got sold
to someone else <after> I had condemned it.  Then I got <another> call
from the people who bought it from them...

Sort of makes one wonder about some folks' ethics.

Who knows, maybe the very same piano made its way up there to Wisconsin.
I wonder how many miles north it traveled with each sale?  :-)

No, actually the one I saw had keys breaking at a pivot where a balance pin
should have been.  Can't really remember what the connection was like--all I
recall was it was <different>.

Barbara Richmond, RPT
near Peoria, Illinois

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Ultsch" <multsch at jvlnet.com>
To: "pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:56 AM
Subject: should I repair, replace, retreat,or recommend a recking ball on
Thomas vertical?


> hi folks,
>
> I've run across an "interesting" non-standard piano with an
> uninteresting problem.
>
> It is a Thomas model PT vertical.  Serial no. 041384.  The nameplate
> lists the manufacturer as Thomas Organ of Sepulveda California.
> Pierce atlas lists only Thomas Piano (not Thomas Organ) as being from
> Sepulveda.  So, how old is this, anyway?
>