---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 1/24/05 2:07:11 P.M. Central Standard Time, hoffsoco@luther.edu writes: Friends, Recently I got to thinking out loud with the interim dept head re:inventory and average age/replacements/needs, etc. Today, I plugged and chugged to get _average_ age of grands, uprights and overall. Hmmmmm. Looking in the guidelines, I see a target "oldest piano" for uprights is suggested as 20-40. Double hmmmmmmmmm. Our _average_ upright age is about 31. I suppose that that would be OK since only 3 are above 50, and are already on a "short" list. - oldest 87. The grands, however... oldest, not counting the square, 116! Average age is about 43, but does not take into account rebuilding. How do youz guyz and galz factor that into the equation? As far as the age of the rebuilt piano, that depends on what you consider rebuilt. I believe the PTG guidelines on rebuilt is new board, block, strings, new action, including keys, and finish. If this was done, then these would be "new" instruments. Anything short of that, I think, would make the piano still the original age. Just my 2 cents worth. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/86/06/be/21/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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