On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > > I have read, with strong interest, the series of articles in the recent >> Journals about restringing and replacing pinblocks in old uprights. >> Most of these are near, if not more than, 100 years old, why would we want >> to refuse to work on them? >> > > Mike >> > > Boy, I wish we could finally get this straightened out just once before I > die. There's a vast difference between doing field patch up on an ancient > crappie shelter candidate and rebuilding the old beater. Both are being > "worked" on, but one will have something to show for the money and effort > and the other won't. > > Ron N > > I thought I covered the whole spectrum in my complete message; [snip]Yes I do, occasionally but not sight unseen. I charge an estimate fee for my time, sometimes I have to tell them what they have is firewood masquerading as a piano. Other times I tell them what repairs it needs then what we HAVE to do to make it operational enough for their beginner to start lessons. Mike -- I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090131/32d8c86f/attachment.html>
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