Recent widow looking at piano business

[Veda Mallory]

Hello,

You haven't heard from me before -- my husband was a piano technician who
loved to "lurk" on your list -- sometimes he would call me in to read some of
your funnies --

Jim was diagnosed with cancer back in February and we thought he had more time
than he did. We had not figured out what to do about our business when he got
so much worse. He died only six weeks later. Now everybody is giving me
different advice and I don't know what to do.

I don't know how to do piano work myself, but I've got all Jim's equipment --
three accutuners and a brand new cradle he'd just ordered -- a shop full of
all these neatly labeled and stored boxes of felts and key tops and strings --
he had just started experimenting with the CA and I was ordering it from a
supplier-

I did the books and orders and made the appointments for our business -- I
helped Jim sometimes, and I liked the work -- but I liked doing the
organizational part of the business more. I have a business degree, but I've
spent alot of years raising our kids and helping Jim.

We have a really good clientele around here with not much competition in the
area. Alot of our friends and customers are encouraging me to learn the
business and take up where Jim left off. I don't know exactly how to do that,
since he left me so unexpectedly soon -- and i don't know if an old girl like
me who's almost 50 could learn to do something so new anyway --

Is it possible to sell a business like this -- sort of like a small-town
doctor sells a practice? I hate to give up what we worked so hard to build.
What do you guys think?

Thanks -- Veda Mallory

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