<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div>Marshall</div> <div> </div> <div>Evaluating a piano for what it needs, as far as repairs are concerned, and appraising one, are two different things.  Unless you have some experience selling pianos, especially used ones, it might be best if you could ask for some help on this.. Perhaps you can ask another tech in town who has experience appraising pianos to go with you on this one, and a couple more, before you try to do this on your own. </div> <div> </div> <div>Willem </div> <div style="clear: both;"> <div> </div> </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Marshall Gisondi <pianotune05@hotmail.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 5:21 pm<br> Subject: [pianotech] piano appraisal<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_e1bc1d7f-c8f4-46a7-ab43-83316ffdb60e"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="3" face="Arial">Hi Everyone,</font><br> <font size="3" face="Arial">Thanks again for your help with the other question I had last week regarding piano leg screws.  I still need to figure out how to support the piano while I take the the only screw in this leg out to check the screw h ole of the missing screw. Fortunately I have until Sept 19th.</font><br> <font size="3" face="Arial"></font> <br> <font size="3" face="Arial">My next question is this. I was called to do a piano appraisal. The person left a voice mail but didn't provide information regarding the piano brand age etc.  Ive been taught how to evaluate a pianos condition and I've done this on many occasions. but to give it a monitary value, would I use the Piaon BOok as a guide?  Will this resource give me a value for a piano in terms of how much it would cost to replace it based on its current condition, or  would that figure be to replace it with a brand new instrument. I don't know what brand of piano I'm dealing with right now because I need to call this person back tomorrow.  I'll be out of town starting tomorrow until Monday.  If you want to e-mail me privately that would be great due to the fact that for some reason the piano tech e-mails are too long for my phone to display, and I miss all of the content.  Private e-mails I can read. I don't have one of those cool Iphones.  Thanks again</font><br> <font size="3" face="Arial">Marshall</font><br> <font size="3" face="Arial">215-510-9400</font><br> <font size="3" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.phillytuner.com" target="_blank">http://www.phillytuner.com</a> </font><br> </div> </div>  </div> </font>