Junk Pianos

[Farrell]

Oh, please do keep us informed. Sounds like an interesting one. We'll be watching!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Wimblees@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: Junk Pianos


> In a message dated 2/9/02 7:40:39 PM !!!First Boot!!!, 
> mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:
> 
> 
> > Why is it so hard to throw out a junk piano? Why is it they stay around 
> > 
> 
> Because there are too many tooners out there who think they can fix anything, 
> and tune all pianos. Because not enough of us are telling customers they have 
> a piece of junk. You don't have to tell them exactly that, but at least tell 
> them the piano has outlived it's usefulness, and can no longer be tuned. The 
> other problem is that as long as "sound" comes from the piano when a key is 
> depressed, they think it "works." The best thing we can do is make it stop 
> playing. When they are not looking, remove the action and throw it away. 
> 
> Last week my wife was asked to tune birdcage action. It was 3 steps low, and 
> not enough hammers were working. She couldn't do it. The problem is, these 
> people have two girls that want to take lessons from her. He's a plastic 
> surgeon and his wife's a chiropractor. I told him the piano was no longer in 
> playing condition, and that he should get another one. He said a blind tuner 
> who tuned it three years ago said it played fine. I told him to get that 
> tuner back, and make sure to have the piano raised up to A440. On Thursday 
> the blind tuner is coming to do that, after which my wife will teach the 
> lessons. I'll let you know what happens.
> 
> Wim 
>