<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Junk Pianos - Sad Shopping Story</title></head><body> <div>At 6:03 AM -0400 4/8/04, Farrell wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">... I recommended against tuning it. ... Anyone want to offer an opinion on my recommendations? Just curious what YOU would have done.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Terry,</div> <div><br></div> <div>Looks can be deceiving. I'd give it a go. It would only take about a half hour to do a pitch change and get a decent feel for what the piano will or won't do.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Who know, you might be surprised that in spite of its appearance, the piano just might hold a tuning, and you'll have made that $800 the customer spent extremely palatable.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Keith</div> <div><br></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div>Keith McGavern<br> Registered Piano Technician<br> Oklahoma Chapter 731<br> Piano Technicians Guild<br> USA<br> </div> </body> </html>