[pianotech] Can you fix it?

[Paul Williams]

I've NEVER told anyone that anything can be repaired…for this very reason.  I can't believe somebody really thinks this fixable! Wow! What a heartbreak, even if only a Wurly spinet!  Whaddya do?  I always hated going to see something like this, no matter the make of the piano.  It's just it's time to be put to pasture…so tell her to let her go! Susan had a nice idea, though.  Make her a "shadow box" for memories.

Paul


From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org<mailto:skline at peak.org>>
Reply-To: "pianotech at ptg.org<mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>" <pianotech at ptg.org<mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>>
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:03 PM
To: "pianotech at ptg.org<mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>" <pianotech at ptg.org<mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Can you fix it?

Save a few of the parts for her to mount in a picture frame,
if sentiment is that overwhelming ...
preferably ones which do not attract termites, like an action
bracket.

John Formsma wrote:
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<mailto: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.

Wim




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From: tnrwim <tnrwim at aol.com<mailto:tnrwim at aol.com>>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org<mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>>
Sent: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 12:54 pm
Subject: [pianotech] Can you fix it?

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.

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?"

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"?

Wim






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