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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Joey, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Don't you just love it when the tornado warning
sirens go off two times in a week and it's JANUARY?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is the Steinway upright that I worked on for Jimmy
Carters cousin(?) in 1979 or so on your customer list? Americus and Georgia
Southwestern are nearby and Plains was on the way..routing don't you know. At
any rate the piano is salvage, and posts are coming in as to how to use it.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hubert Liverman</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Opelika,AL.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=joey@onkeypiano.com href="mailto:joey@onkeypiano.com">Joey Recker</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 08, 2007 7:38
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Just needs a little
tuning!</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial size=2>I did not agree to the repairs. I
have an upright in my shop that I offered to sell to her at a reasonable
price. She is considering the offer.<BR><BR></FONT><FONT
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<B>From</B>: Conrad Hoffsommer <<A
href="mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu">hoffsoco@luther.edu</A>><BR><B>Sent</B>:
Monday, January 08, 2007 6:09 AM<BR><B>To</B>: <A
href="mailto:joey@onkeypiano.com">joey@onkeypiano.com</A>, Pianotech List
<<A
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR><B>Subject</B>:
Re: Just needs a little tuning!</FONT><BR><BR>At 05:22 AM 1/8/2007 -0500, you
wrote:<BR>>"Mamma said there be days like this."<BR>><BR>>This
morning I woke up to a terrible rain storm. My first piano of <BR>>the day
was a new customer only 10 miles away who told me she had an <BR>>upright
piano that just needed a "tuning".<BR>><BR>>I arrived to find a 1975
Henry F. Miller Spinet. It didn't look too <BR>>bad from the outside. Then
I opened it up. the felt on every <BR>>single hammer is seperating from the
hammers. I counted 24 bass <BR>>strings broken, and 26 treble
strings.<BR>><BR>>I showed her what it looked like on the inside and she
asked me if <BR>>it was worth fixing. I told her that she was the only one
who could <BR>>decide that. I gave her a price for re-stringing, and
replacing all <BR>>the hammers and a good cleaning. I explained to her what
a <BR>>comperable piano would cost her to purchase new and used. I bid the
<BR>>job high enough (but fair for the amount of work that needs to be
<BR>>done) and figured that no sane person would want to put that kind of
<BR>>money into this piano. She wants it fixed!<BR>><BR>>I usually
just lurk here and glean all the knowlege I can from you <BR>>fine folks,
but my new year's resolution is to participate more in <BR>>the list. I
thought this gem of a piano was worth sharing. I'm <BR>>just glad all it
needed was a good tuning! I don't think I could <BR>>stand it if it needed
some serious work done!<BR>><BR>>Joey<BR>>On Key Piano<BR>>Plains,
GA<BR><BR><BR>Bless you, my son, for you now know the full meaning of the
<BR>expression "can of worms".<BR><BR>Which hurricane(s) did that? When the
pinblock/backposts/etc. <BR>delaminate under the restored tension of full
stringing, then what?<BR><BR><BR><BR>Conrad Hoffsommer<BR><BR>There comes a
time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.<BR>-Casey
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