Wim, Mahalo nui loa! I had a feeling that might be the case, but I don't have a lot of experience with this era of pianos (yet!). If I rebuilt the thing -- action, new strings, etc., primarily for the experience, it would be worth what? $1,000? I guess it might be a good rental, perhaps... Regards, Rob On Aug 14, 2009, at 23:22 , wimblees at aol.com wrote: > Rob > > This looks like a run of the mill early 1900's piano. You're going > to have to pull it to pitch, replace the bridle straps and the > missing bass dampers. When you've done that, it will be worth about > $500, but you'll probably have to move it to the new customer's > house. If you do you're own moving, you can actually make a few > bucks. If you have to pay someone to move the piano, you might be > able to break even if you gave the customer $100. > Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT > Piano Tuner/Technician > Mililani, Oahu, HI > 808-349-2943 > Author of: > The Business of Piano Tuning > available from Potter Press > www.pianotuning.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090814/7fe00f26/attachment.htm>
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