[pianotech] Can you fix it?

[Susan Kline]

Save a few of the parts for her to mount in a picture frame,
if sentiment is that overwhelming ...
preferably ones which do not attract termites, like an action
bracket.

John Formsma wrote:
> Ha...I read this message an hour ago on my smartphone, but didn't look 
> at the pictures. Yikes!
>
> I was going to tell you that one of my lines is, "Anything can be 
> repaired, but at what cost?" After seeing the photos, maybe I should 
> instead say, "Just about anything can be repaired...."
>
> It still could be, but oh the cost!
>
> There are lots of those little Wurlies around here. If she wants to 
> arrange for freight, I can get you a similar brown one probably in a 
> couple of weeks. :-)
>
> -- 
> John Formsma, RPT
> Blue Mountain, MS
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:33 PM, <tnrwim at aol.com 
> <mailto:tnrwim at aol.com>> wrote:
>
>     In case anyone gets too serious about this. I said, "did I do the
>     right thing", with tongue firmly implanted.
>      
>     Wim
>
>      
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: tnrwim <tnrwim at aol.com <mailto:tnrwim at aol.com>>
>     To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>>
>     Sent: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 12:54 pm
>     Subject: [pianotech] Can you fix it?
>
>     I got a call from a lady saying her son dropped her piano while
>     moving it off the porch. The sides are a little damaged, and some
>     notes don't play, and there might be a broken string. She's had it
>     since she was a child, and has lots sentimental value, so please
>     come and fix it.
>      
>     When I got to the house, the piano was sitting outside, under a
>     tarp. When I told her husband that the piano was toast, he had the
>     nerve, or maybe it was the stupidity, to ask what it is worth. He
>     said, "all the keys are still there, and there's a little termite
>     damage, but can't you fix it?"
>      
>     Did I do the right thing by telling him I couldn't fix it. Anyone
>     want a 1950's' Wurlitzer spinet, with all the keys, but a "little
>     case damage"?
>      
>     Wim
>
>      
>
>
>
>
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