<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1522" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV>Brian asked: " <DIV><FONT size=+0>Hello list,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>A customer wishes to have me forward to her an appraisal for her 1835</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>chickering baby grand. Several years ago, it had been restrung and new</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>dampers put on it. I have been tuning it for several years ( 5 tunings.one</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>every 6 months) . It plays.umm.ok.. and the case is in good, but not</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>excellent, condition.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>Any input from you as to what sort of appraisal price might be appropriate?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>Brian,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>I hate to tell you this, but they didn't make "baby" Grands in 1835. Was that, perhaps, a typo?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Regards,</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon)</DIV> <DIV>Captain, Tool Police</DIV> <DIV>Squares R I</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML>