<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Should I?</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1> <STYLE>  </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16705" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=MailContainerBody style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 CanvasTabStop="true" name="Compose message area"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>One last thing. I agree with Paul, I wouldn't pay $3500 for it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Al </FONT></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"> <DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com">Alan Barnard</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 14, 2008 3:22 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Should I?</DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Advice from experience, please.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have a chance to buy a Howard C-171 from a church, with the idea of selling it at a profit after some regulation, etc. The piano is a pretty fer drive from me and I'm not familiar with this model. They bought it new in the 80's, I think, and the case is supposed to be in good shape with, apparently, a ding on one of the cheekblocks. They are asking $3500 ... </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I know some of you have lot of experience buying and selling used pianos, I do not. Does this sound like something worth the drive to check it out?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem, MO<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>