<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><EM>"Would you like to give me an appraisal on my 1985 Buick = in "mint" condition without  seeing it???"</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM></EM> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>No, but Kelly Blue Book would!   <A href="http://www.kbb.com/">http://www.kbb.com/</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I would say that an honest tech could not give a = recommendation for buying a piano without inspecting it, but a ballpark = value is commonly fairly easy to identify.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=rczekay@sbcglobal.net = href="mailto:rczekay@sbcglobal.net">Roy Czekay</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 20, = 2005 9:23 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: ***Midwest chickering***</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>There is no way an honest technician can give a fair appraisal = price on a piano without personally inspecting it. It just cannot be done from an = email description. Would you like to give me an appraisal on my 1985 = Buick in "mint" condition without  seeing it???</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Roy Czekay</DIV> <DIV>Milwaukee, WI</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>