About two weeks ago I went to tune a piano for a woman that had just bought a 1950ish Gulbranson console. Several notes not working. Broken plasitc butt flanges. Broken plastic jacks. Broken plastic damper flanges. Broken plastic backchecks. I told her I could fix the few broken ones, but the others will soon likely break. I told her it would cost more than $500 to replace all the plastic parts and adjust everything properly. She freaked and said she only paid $400 for the piano. She agreed with me that it was not worth doing anything with it. She kinda freaked me then when she said "someone will pay $400 for it because it is such a nice looking piano". Ohhh geeezzzzz - she's gonna sell it without saying anything to the buyer! How many hands will this piano go through before it goes to the dump or becomes a planter? Should I post the serial number in case one of you see it shortly????????? Scary stuff. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Driscoll" <tomtuner@mediaone.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 6:29 PM Subject: Re: plastic flanges > Ditto to the previous posts. What about the Jacks and Backchecks? You can > reach the point of diminishing returns quickly ! Is it a Winter? Tom > Driscoll > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <JIMRPT@AOL.COM> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 4:39 PM > Subject: Re: plastic flanges > > > > > > In a message dated 09/08/01 7:19:36 PM, Tvak@AOL.COM writes: > > > > <<" Must I replace all the flanges if I want to sleep at > > night after selling this piano?">> > > > > Tom; > > That depends on whether you want pleasant dreams or nightmares! :-) > > Yes, replace them........... it really doesn't take that long, isn't all > that > > expensive and you will feel much better about it. > > My view. > > Jim Bryant (FL) >
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