wording???

[Bill Ballard]

At 4:40 PM -0400 5/13/02, Farrell wrote:
>When in the environmental industry I authored many proposals and 
>reports and worked with many attorneys to dance around the blame 
>issue. My suggestion would be to be careful to say nothing about 
>when the damage may have occurred at all. The owner asked you for an 
>estimate to refinish, rebuild or whatever. Give them a proposal to 
>refinish rebuild, or whatever. Don't give them a proposal to fix 
>storage damage, but rather to make the piano like new again. Let the 
>owner carry the burden of identifying when the damage may have 
>occurred. You weren't there. Not your problem.
>
>Terry Farrell

Hear, Hear. I'd add a clause to what is simply and explicitly an 
estimate for finish repair:

"The circumstances behind this damage are unimportant to the 
execution of the contracted work. I offer my services as a piano 
rebuilder. I am not a forensic chemist."

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

"The law gets you into everything. It's the ultimate backstage pass. 
It's the new priesthood"
     ...........Al Pacino in "Devil's Advocate"
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