Just needs a little tuning!

[hubert liverman]

 Joey, 

Don't you just love it when the tornado warning sirens go off two times in a week and it's JANUARY?

Is the Steinway upright that I worked on for Jimmy Carters cousin(?) in 1979 or so on your customer list? Americus and Georgia Southwestern are nearby and Plains was on the way..routing don't you know. At any rate the piano is salvage, and posts are coming in as to how to use it. 


Hubert Liverman
Opelika,AL.






  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joey Recker 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:38 AM
  Subject: Re: Just needs a little tuning!


  I did not agree to the repairs.  I have an upright in my shop that I offered to sell to her at a reasonable price.  She is considering the offer.


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  From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
  Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 6:09 AM
  To: joey at onkeypiano.com, Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
  Subject: Re: Just needs a little tuning!

  At 05:22 AM 1/8/2007 -0500, you wrote:
  >"Mamma said there be days like this."
  >
  >This morning I woke up to a terrible rain storm. My first piano of 
  >the day was a new customer only 10 miles away who told me she had an 
  >upright piano that just needed a "tuning".
  >
  >I arrived to find a 1975 Henry F. Miller Spinet. It didn't look too 
  >bad from the outside. Then I opened it up. the felt on every 
  >single hammer is seperating from the hammers. I counted 24 bass 
  >strings broken, and 26 treble strings.
  >
  >I showed her what it looked like on the inside and she asked me if 
  >it was worth fixing. I told her that she was the only one who could 
  >decide that. I gave her a price for re-stringing, and replacing all 
  >the hammers and a good cleaning. I explained to her what a 
  >comperable piano would cost her to purchase new and used. I bid the 
  >job high enough (but fair for the amount of work that needs to be 
  >done) and figured that no sane person would want to put that kind of 
  >money into this piano. She wants it fixed!
  >
  >I usually just lurk here and glean all the knowlege I can from you 
  >fine folks, but my new year's resolution is to participate more in 
  >the list. I thought this gem of a piano was worth sharing. I'm 
  >just glad all it needed was a good tuning! I don't think I could 
  >stand it if it needed some serious work done!
  >
  >Joey
  >On Key Piano
  >Plains, GA


  Bless you, my son, for you now know the full meaning of the 
  expression "can of worms".

  Which hurricane(s) did that? When the pinblock/backposts/etc. 
  delaminate under the restored tension of full stringing, then what?



  Conrad Hoffsommer

  There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.
  -Casey Stengel


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