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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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title=RCzekay@AOL.COM>RCzekay@AOL.COM</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"
title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 03, =
2001 6:43
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Betsy Ross =
pianos</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=3>Well put Terry, =
<BR><BR>The Betsy
Ross was nothing more than a toy piano, and why any respectful =
<BR>technician
would even give a second thought to replacing plastic flanges, and =
<BR>taking
the customers money, when the end result will still be a piano that =
<BR>plays
and sounds like a toy, is beyond me. But of course, the customer is =
<BR>always
right, right? It would be doing the customer a big favor to try to =
<BR>educate
him, and to try to improve his taste in music, by purchasing a piano =
<BR>that
really is one. <BR><BR>Roy Czekay <BR>Milwaukee, WI</FONT> =
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial> Roy,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> I happen =
to be a
respectful technician who would love to service only finer pianos, =
but
when presented with one of these piano's purchased in 1955 at =
great
sacrifice to provide a musical education for the kids now lovingly =
polished
and played at christmas with lousy bass tone, false beats and yes =
broken
elbows, I'm going to congratulate them on the finest purchase =
they've
ever made and replace those elbows at a fair price. If it can't be =
serviced ,
I'll be direct and walk away</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> I let them know this is not a fine
piano and </FONT><FONT face=Arial> won't talk =
about
restringing, new hammers , or any other work that exceeds the piano's =
value
and will always encourage upgrades when the situation warrants. =
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> I'm almost 30 years in =
and next
to the Steinway action on the bench , I don't mind seeing a Lester or =
a
Janssen ( Just no Kincaids - I'm not a masochist )</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> Tom
Driscoll</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>