state of the industry

[Susan Kline]

At 07:07 PM 10/21/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-10-21 09:52:39 EDT, you write:
>
><<  to tell them that these pianos do have a life
> expectancy of no more than 75 - 100 years, and that spending money to
restore
> them should only be done in very rare circumstances. 
>  >>
>Are we the only civilization that throws away 15-year-old television sets and
>expect that 100 year -old upright to be fixable AND sound good?
>
>Bob Bergantino,RPT
>Cleveland, Ohio

No ... in Europe they often save much older instruments than we do. A
piano's lifespan is inherently much longer than that of an electronic
device. Some (not all or even most) 100-year-old uprights ARE fixable and
DO sound good.

Susan

Susan Kline
P.O. Box 1651
Philomath, OR 97370
skline@proaxis.com