<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div>Al</div> <div> </div> <div>I passed on it because I don't have the tools and equipment to do the work. There is another tuner/tech in Honolulu that has a big shop that is going to do the work. <br> <br> Wim</div> <div style="CLEAR: both"> <div> </div> </div> <br> <br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft <alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Mon, May 7, 2012 6:17 am<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] A little case damage<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_1_7ceb109f-1330-44e2-bc86-97a6249bdf20>Win, I'd take that sucker if he just gives it to you. It's a good fixer upper and you can give your customer a real deal. I'm sure, once you fix the bed, you can make a decent piano out of it. <div><br> <div><SPAN style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class=Apple-style-span> <div>Al -</div> <div>High Point, NC</div> <div><br> </div> </SPAN><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline></div> <br> <div> <div>On May 6, 2012, at 6:58 PM, <A href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com">tnrwim@aol.com</A> wrote:</div> <BR class=Apple-interchange-newline><FONT color=black size=2 face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <div>My mover called and asked if I would interested in a piano that fell off a shelf, and sustained a "little case damage". After looking at it, I passed. But what is interesting, is that a chunk of "wood": came off either the cheek block or the arm. This is what these pianos are now made of. Nothing more than pressed cardboard. </div> <div> </div> <div>Wim<br> <br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both"> <div> </div> </div> </FONT><SPAN><Kawai.JPG></SPAN><SPAN><solid wood></SPAN></div> <br> </div> </div> </div> </font>