[pianotech] Can you fix it?

[John Formsma]

Ha...I read this message an hour ago on my smartphone, but didn't look at
the pictures. Yikes!

I was going to tell you that one of my lines is, "Anything can be repaired,
but at what cost?" After seeing the photos, maybe I should instead say,
"Just about anything can be repaired...."

It still could be, but oh the cost!

There are lots of those little Wurlies around here. If she wants to arrange
for freight, I can get you a similar brown one probably in a couple of
weeks. :-)

-- 
John Formsma, RPT
Blue Mountain, MS



On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:33 PM, <tnrwim at aol.com> wrote:

> In case anyone gets too serious about this. I said, "did I do the right
> thing", with tongue firmly implanted.
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> Wim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tnrwim <tnrwim at aol.com>
> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 12:54 pm
> Subject: [pianotech] Can you fix it?
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>   **I got a call from a lady saying her son dropped her piano while
> moving it off the porch. The sides are a little damaged, and some notes
> don't play, and there might be a broken string. She's had it since she was
> a child, and has lots sentimental value, so please come and fix it.
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> When I got to the house, the piano was sitting outside, under a tarp. When
> I told her husband that the piano was toast, he had the nerve, or maybe it
> was the stupidity, to ask what it is worth. He said, "all the keys are
> still there, and there's a little termite damage, but can't you fix it?"
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> Did I do the right thing by telling him I couldn't fix it. Anyone want a
> 1950's' Wurlitzer spinet, with all the keys, but a "little case damage"?
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> Wim
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