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. <hr align="center" width="100%" size="2" /> From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco@luther.edu> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 6:09 AM To: joey@onkeypiano.com, Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org> Subject: Re: Just needs a little tuning! At 05:22 AM 1/8/2007 -0500, you wrote: >"Mamma said there be days like this." > >This morning I woke up to a terrible rain storm. My first piano of >the day was a new customer only 10 miles away who told me she had an >upright piano that just needed a "tuning". > >I arrived to find a 1975 Henry F. Miller Spinet. It didn't look too >bad from the outside. Then I opened it up. the felt on every >single hammer is seperating from the hammers. I counted 24 bass >strings broken, and 26 treble strings. > >I showed her what it looked like on the inside and she asked me if >it was worth fixing. I told her that she was the only one who could >decide that. I gave her a price for re-stringing, and replacing all >the hammers and a good cleaning. I explained to her what a >comperable piano would cost her to purchase new and used. I bid the >job high enough (but fair for the amount of work that needs to be >done) and figured that no sane person would want to put that kind of >money into this piano. She wants it fixed! > >I usually just lurk here and glean all the knowlege I can from you >fine folks, but my new year's resolution is to participate more in >the list. I thought this gem of a piano was worth sharing. I'm >just glad all it needed was a good tuning! I don't think I could >stand it if it needed some serious work done! > >Joey >On Key Piano >Plains, GA Bless you, my son, for you now know the full meaning of the expression "can of worms". Which hurricane(s) did that? When the pinblock/backposts/etc. delaminate under the restored tension of full stringing, then what? Conrad Hoffsommer There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them. -Casey Stengel