Hi Patrick I've already sent this to Terry since he'd responded but here's what I found out tonight. Avery ===================================================================== Well, I just talked to the guy and he'd had someone else out to his house today and from what he said, I think the basic problem is that it's badly out of tune. At least, that's what the guy told him. The customer said that he was an older type guy who's a custodian somewhere but had been around and (I guess worked on) pianos for many years. And he only charges $65.00 for a tuning. I charge $80.00 and I'm underpricing myself! Does that tell you anything about him? He just seems really strange and I didn't really want to go look at it anyway. The university has a "relationship" with the 3 major dealers here and I have to be pretty careful what I do. Especially if I don't have permission. But I do have a good relationship with the Steinway dealer so I wasn't really worried about it. I did find out, however, that it's a 5'1" model (I don't know what that's called). But at least he seems happy with what the guy told him and it lets me off the hook. :-) At 08:24 PM 06/06/03 -0400, you wrote: >On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 08:02 PM, Avery Todd wrote: > >>List >> >>But while we're on that general subject, does anyone have any "comments" to >>make about the new Bostons? > >Well, a local school got a GP 163 several months ago. Seemed OK at the 1st >tuning but when I noted some damper leakage during a tuning last week I >found the damper levers flanges to be *incredibly* loose. After some >serious screw tightening everything was OK. >I had assumed the Bostons would have *some* prep work done before delivery >but I guess they're saving that attention for "real S&Ss" and no-discount >private purchasers. >Otherwise the few Bostons I've seen & serviced have been pretty decent. > >Patrick Draine
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