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[Bill Ballard]

At 9:24 PM -0500 1/30/03, Marcel Carey wrote:
>There were 24 pianos
>affected. Some of them not even worth tuning mind you. This estimate
>just bugs me. I whish I could just tell them to junk these. I find it
>stupid to spend money to repair (remove odor) pianos that are not
>worth tuning (some of them I've refused to tune for over 2 years).
>Well, who ever said that life was perfect.

Just tell the administrator that the bad smell is coming from the 
inharmonicity of the piano. Even freshly tuned, the sound stinks, 
right?

>I still have to make an estimate of repairs for the insurance people
>and I don't like it at all.

I assume that if you had asked for suggestions about estimating for 
insurance, you would have told us more of the story. You might 
explore the possibility of determining whether these pianos would be 
totaled, if the estimate (which you should turn in, the expensive 
one) is greater than the weekly shopper market value of these 
darlings. That way, you wouldn't have to do the work and the owner 
(is this a store or a school or a church?) might be able to get ten 
good pianos (maybe new) for the replacement cost of all 24.

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

"Lady, this piano is what it is, I am what I am, and you are what you are"
     ...........From a recurring nightmare.
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