<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <title>Definitive Answer (for me) was Clunker pianos - what do you do?</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"/> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </style> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang="EN-US" vlink="#800080" link="#0000ff"> <div><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana"><b><font face="Arial-BoldMT" size="3"> This was my response to this issue some time back. It's still true when you live in der schticks!</font></b></span></font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana"><b><font face="Arial-BoldMT" size="3"> </font></b></span></font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana"><b><font face="Arial-BoldMT" size="3"> </font></b>Alan BarnardSalem, MO</span></font></div> <div class="Section1" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">Ode to Old Uprights</font></div> <div class="Section1" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><font size="3"> <div><font face="Times New Roman">They're dirty, they’re dusty,</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">Smell mousy and musty,</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">(Should long ago have been scrapped),</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">But we take out tools, try not to look fools,</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">While children watch us, enrapt.</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">They look pretty sad,</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">But to make the folks glad,</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">(And because they are willing to pay),</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">We glue and adjust, scrape out goo, gunk, and rust,</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">And drench the old block with CA.</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">“Oh bother,” we say,</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">“This just ain't my day,”</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">(When strings they are asnappin').</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">Mend stickers, glue shanks, fix keys</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">—and give thanks,</font></div> <div class="Section1"><font face="Times New Roman">For the fee that is coming our way.</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" align="left">Alan BarnardSalem, MO</div></font><br/>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/><br/> <div class="Section1" style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr/>Original message<br/>From: "Dean May" <deanmay@pianorebuilders.com> </deanmay@pianorebuilders.com><br/>To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Received: 4/10/2008 6:48:43 PM<br/>Subject: RE: Clunker pianos - what do you do?<br/><br/> <div class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial">What Steve said.</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial"> </span></font></div> <div> <div class="MsoAutoSig"><b><font face="Bradley Hand ITC" color="#000080" size="6"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 22pt; color: navy; font-family: ">Dean</span></font></b><font color="#000080"><span style="color: navy"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoAutoSig" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy">Dean May</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="color: navy">             cell 812.239.3359 </span></font></div> <div class="MsoAutoSig" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy">PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 </span></font></div> <div class="MsoAutoSig" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy">Terre Haute</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="color: navy"> IN  47802</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="color: navy"> </span></font></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial"> </span></font></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt"> <hr tabindex="-1" align="center" width="100%" size="2"/></span></font> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma"> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b><span style="font-weight: bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Stephen Grattan<br/><b><span style="font-weight: bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:27 PM<br/><b><span style="font-weight: bold">To:</span></b> Pianotech List<br/><b><span style="font-weight: bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: Clunker pianos - what do you do?</span></font></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt"> </span></font></div> <div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana">Michelle,</span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana"> </span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana">I also have a simple rule-of-thumb.  I give the customer- in writing, a full assessment of the piano, its current value and its potential value - then let the customer decide.  I have had many cases where I have given the customer dozens of reasons to junk it and they will say "It was Grandmas - I want to do it"  The money is green, they have made an informed decision, I have full-filled my obligations and I like to pay my bills- so I do it.  Have a great day!</span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana"> </span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: blue; font-family: Verdana">Steve Grattan</span></font></b></strong><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana"> </span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: blue; font-family: Verdana">Lost Chord Clinic</span></font></b></strong><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana"> </span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana"> </span></font></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt">----- Original Message ----<br/>From: Andrew and Rebeca Anderson <anrebe@sbcglobal.net><br/>To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:18:32 PM<br/>Subject: RE: Clunker pianos - what do you do?<br/><br/>Michelle,<br/>I have a simple rule-of-thumb.  If the cost of my work far exceeds <br/>the potential value of the piano I refuse to take the job.<br/><br/>Andrew Anderson</span></font></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana"> </span></font></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>