On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Delwin D Fandrich <del at fandrichpiano.com>wrote: > What is wrong with simply telling the folks the truth. Their piano is > worn out and its condition is beyond economical patching. Rebuilding it will > cost $xx,xxx and will including replacing the pinblock, many, if not most, > action parts and possibly the soundboard and bridges. Musically it might be > worth the expense, in terms of any reasonable resale value it will not. > > Then let them decide. Sooner or later we have to stop patching these old > things regardless of what their perceived "sentimental value" might be. If, > indeed, there is any real value to that sentiment the time has come for it > to be expressed in the form of dollars. > > ddf > > > > > Del has the right idea. We don't need to condemn the piano or make judgments. Just give your best information and put it in their court. I think its really bad form to say anything negative about a customers piano no matter how much you fantasize about the flames licking the keybed. -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090406/3cf1b9ad/attachment.html>
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