[CAUT] punched soundboard

[Chris Solliday]

Looks like moving damage or a pair of size 14 Doc Martins with steel tipped
toes. Definitely totaled, replacement cost.
Chris Solliday
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] punched soundboard


>
> > Discovered this morning, Yamaha U1 in the band/orchestra room; was a
> > very nice piano until this.
> >
> > Looks like it met with the business end of a hammer, or a
> > percussionist's mallet, perhaps.
> >
> > What would _you_ tell an insurance company about what it would take to
> > do a cosmetically pleasing repair?
> >
> >
> > Kent Swafford
>
> Cosmetically pleasing would be a nice neat back cover. A
> realistic functional recovery fix is soundboard replacement.
> In other words, it's totaled.
> Ron N