<WBR>If all you want to do is cosmetic, it won't take much. But will that put the soundboard back to its original condition? I would presume not. Could this damage be considered vandalism beyond repair, and for the piano to be "totaled"?<br>
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<div style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<br>
Piano Tuner/Technician<br>
Honolulu, HI<br>
Author of <br>
The Business of Piano Tuning<br>
available from Potter Press<br>
www.pianotuning.com</div>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Kent Swafford <kswafford@gmail.com><br>
To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org><br>
Sent: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 3:48 pm<br>
Subject: [CAUT] punched soundboard<br>
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Looks like it met with the business end of a hammer, or a percussionist's mallet, perhaps. <br>
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What would _you_ tell an insurance company about what it would take to do a cosmetically pleasing repair? <br>
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Kent Swafford <br>
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