David, It looks like the "nays" have it. I agree. From your description of the piano, you would lose your shirt (& maybe some reputation) trying to do a good job on this piano. Try to get them to use the money on a piano(s) where they, and you, could get more "bang for their buck". If they won't use the money that way, I like the suggestion made about buying parts with the money right now and then in the next budget year get the money to do the job right. Here's a quote from a poster type card I gave to some rebuilder friends of mine after they had gotten me out a jam on a piano on which someone else had seriously screwed up a pinblock installation (New block & had 5/0 pins in it). Maybe it sort of applies here: "We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing." Maybe you should wait a while before you try to "do anything with nothing". :-) Avery >Everything is connected to everything else in the piano. The new questions >are, "Once I begin working, where do I stop?" and "Do I really want to be >known as the piano technician who did a halfway job on a piano that could >have been completely restored?" > >Sincerely, >David _____________________________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu http://www.uh.edu/music/ _____________________________________
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