help me with an insurance estimate?

[Don]

Hi Susan,

Try here:

http://www.thepianoexchange.com/

They list retail values.

At 07:12 AM 09/04/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>I hope to get some help, since I don't buy and sell
>pianos, or work for a store, where I can see prices.
>
>A piano was just willed to a small college near here,
>and I got to go look at it. Now I need to tell them a
>value for insurance and tax purposes.
>
>It was lovely! Mason & Hamlin A, 1930, in pristine
>condition. Soundboard and bridges looked perfect,
>barely worn hammers and backchecks, good regulation,
>perfect ivory, varnish not crazed, lyre and pedals
>solid, etc. etc. etc. The sound was big and warm.
>I pulled the action, and I think I was the first
>person ever to get in there. Only dust and the pretty
>action inside.
>
>The piano came straight to Salem, Oregon when it was
>new, and lived only there and in Eugene. The climate is
>certainly benign.
>
>Lucky college!
>
>Anyway, I know that different parts of the country
>might have different piano values, but I want to get some
>idea of how much insurance this jewel should carry.
>
>thanks .....
>
>Susan Kline 
>
>
>

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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