<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 7/20/2004 5:20:02 PM Central Standard Time, severanc= @mail.wsu.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>We recently had a small (less than 6' ) Mason = Welte Reproducer with 200 <BR>rolls donated to the Music school.  Every= thing is there but needs totally <BR>rebuilt, including the piano.  Doe= s anyone want to give me a ballpark <BR>figure that I can give this fellow f= or his tax return?  I would guess the <BR>piano might bring $900.00 wit= hout the reproducer.  It's not a Mason & <BR>Hamlin, just a Mason.<= BR><BR>Dave Severance<BR>School of Music<BR>Washington State University</FON= T></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>Purely for tax purposes, on your private letterhead, (or get another tu= ner to do this), you can put a value of $15,000 for this piano Thi= s figure is based on the fact that a new "player piano," made by the same co= mpany (Mason & Hamlin), now sells for around $45,000, and this piano wou= ld be worth roughly one-third as much, given depreciation, etc. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Please, don't tell me the piano isn't worth that much. I know it is. Re= building the reproducer alone is going to cost $7500, and to rebuild the pia= no will cost another $15,000. But as I said, this is for tax purposes. The I= RS is not going to sell it, and they won't question the "official" documenta= tion from a professional piano tuner, unless someone file a complaint.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV></BODY></HTML>