Recent widow looking at piano business

[Larry J Messerly]

Veda,
So sorry for your sudden loss.  I see an opportunity to keep running the
business end of the business as you have been doing, and hiring a good
technician to do the service calls for you.  As you desire you could
learn to tune yourself, it takes time and practice.  Hiring a technician
to work for you would allow you time to develop your skills, while still
maintaining and serving your clients.

Larry Messerly, RPT
Prescott/Phoenix

On 13 May 00 21:57:36 MDT Veda Mallory <veda88@usa.net> writes:
> 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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Larry Messerly, RPT
Phoenix/Prescott