<html> <body> Loren, After over 30 yrs. in this business, I never assume anything. That's why I asked! :-D Avery At 05:14 PM 6/13/2006, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Terry, I was one of those types 25 years ago.  I was working full time and overtime.  Had an overwhelming checking account and no time to spend it.  Then grandma's piano came into our family's life.  I only had time to check with a couple of local tuners.  I wanted them to tune, assess the piano and give me an estimate to make it like new.  I got no takers, however it must be stated that I did not go very far with this as I didn't have the time and didn't even know how to pursue this except to contact the few tuners in the local yellow pages. What developed was our family jumped into the old Buick station wagon one Sunday afternoon and hit several piano places in the Seattle-Tacoma area.  The problem was they saw us and "qualified" us thinking we could only afford to spend about a grand, when we were thinking perhaps an amount of ten times that and had the cash.  We did purchase a new piano, a Baldwin R, for cash but not from the "qualifiers" and have enjoyed it as a family for 26 years. The moral of this is to remember that "stuffed suits" are often only that, and the guy driving the old Buick and wearing bib overalls may have heart of gold and a pocket book to match.  So if I were the technician involved I would not assume anything, but would ask what their long term intentions are for the piano.  You might be pleasantly surprised. Loren Hedahl </blockquote></body> </html>