---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment Dear List, A new customer called me to appraise and tune their Kawai KG-2E (5' 10", right? 1987). The reason for the appraisal? They recently moved, and while their piano was being craned out an apartment window it slipped, swinging about 4 feet before slamming into the brick exterior of the building. Fortunately they had paid the movers for a policy to insure against damages. Unfortunately the movers/insurance company went with the lower of two bids on the repair work. While the workmanship is acceptable in a salvage scenario, it's the movers/insurance company's obligation to compensate for the loss in value between what it had been, and what is now. Or at least that's the customer's, and his lawyer's, viewpoint! The impact had moved the right cheek out about 3/8" (they appear to have fixed that OK), mangled the corner pretty well, caused some stress fractures on the inside of the cheek, damage to the keyslip, etc. There was a pretty big ding below the keyslip (forgetting my case terminology) around middle C. Below is a shot of the which shows how the "refinisher"/touchup guy colored the keyslip with a heavy red tone to disguise his work, and the poor match of finish on the front of the cheek. I'm not a whiz at closeups with my digital camera so I don't have better shots. Any thoughts on how much a 15 year old "very very good" condition Kawai KG-2E (gloss walnut) is worth, and how much it's worth when there's several areas like this that shout "I've been repaired by a "so-so" (not expert) touchup guy." (OK this what I *think* but tell me if I'm off base -- similar size new Kawai lists for $25K, heavily discounted to $18. If it hadn't been damaged -- $10 to $11K. "Touchup guy" was paid ~ $1800 ((losing bid was $3500)). So is it appropriate to say that the piano's been devalued by $1500? Or what figure seems correct to you?). Thanks, Patrick ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: iPhotoiPhoto-mailtmp-0.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 103075 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1a/e9/e6/a6/iPhotoiPhoto-mailtmp-0.jpg ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment Roll 34 - 10 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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