Just needs a little tuning!

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 05:22 AM 1/8/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>"Mamma said there be days like this."
>
>This morning I woke up to a terrible rain storm.  My first piano of 
>the day was a new customer only 10 miles away who told me she had an 
>upright piano that just needed a "tuning".
>
>I arrived to find a 1975 Henry F. Miller Spinet.  It didn't look too 
>bad from the outside.  Then I opened it up.  the felt on every 
>single hammer is seperating from the hammers.  I counted 24 bass 
>strings broken, and 26 treble strings.
>
>I showed her what it looked like on the inside and she asked me if 
>it was worth fixing.  I told her that she was the only one who could 
>decide that.  I gave her a price for re-stringing, and replacing all 
>the hammers and a good cleaning.  I explained to her what a 
>comperable piano would cost her to purchase new and used.  I bid the 
>job high enough (but fair for the amount of work that needs to be 
>done) and figured that no sane person would want to put that kind of 
>money into this piano.  She wants it fixed!
>
>I usually just lurk here and glean all the knowlege I can from you 
>fine folks, but my new year's resolution is to participate more in 
>the list.  I thought this gem of a piano was worth sharing.  I'm 
>just glad all it needed was a good tuning!  I don't think I could 
>stand it if it needed some serious work done!
>
>Joey
>On Key Piano
>Plains, GA


Bless you, my son, for you now know the full meaning of the 
expression "can of worms".

Which hurricane(s) did that?   When the pinblock/backposts/etc. 
delaminate under the restored tension of full stringing, then what?



Conrad Hoffsommer

There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.
-Casey Stengel