I totally agree. I have heard many-a-tech complain "Oh I HATE old pianos, what a piece of JUNK....." and so on. I don't have much junk anymore here in Las Vegas which is generally speaking a new city. Most people move here, buy new pianos, and leave the junk behind them. When I lived in the mid west however I used to get several bad pianos a week. They where exhausting but I made a fortune every time I got one. Rob Goodale, RPT Las Vegas, NV Farrell wrote: > Last Thursday I had two tuning appointments. I serviced a BAD 100 year old > Kimball grand. The lady wanted it tuned, but it also needed keys and dampers > fixed just so that I could tune the darn thing. Four and a half hours later > it was tuned. Then I went to tune a NEW Baldwin Hamilton. Flat, had to align > many hammers because they were not hitting the strings, some hammers loose > from shanks, keys not level, etc. Three hours later tuned. I made $380 that > day. > > Yesterday I had two tuning appointments. I had tuned both within the last > year (newer Yamaha grand and an as-good-as-it-gets Kimball grand). Both > within 4 cents of A440. Two pass tunings. Four and a half hours later > (drive, tune, drive, tune, etc.) I had $150. > > I take back everything I have said about junk pianos. I LOVE THEM!!!! > > Terry Farrell
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