Thanks to all that responded...  some of you by phone.  If I didn't
return your call, don't be offended.  The losses on this job are big
enough without adding a phone bill to it.  I've come up with a solution
that will make everyone happy.  I have a player piano on a dealer's
floor that hasn't had any traffic on it for years.  It looks nice,
plays in both modes and is about bungalow sized.  I'm in the process of
trading straight across for the Chapell.  This will get a customer that
has spent far more than the piano's worth taken care of, the dealer
gets rid of dead inventory, and I keep my reputation intact.  I end up
with the piano (Chapell) in my shop where I can get to it if I feel
like it, or dump it on someone else and use if for a write off.

Jobs like this make me think real serious about dropping the paper
player end of this business.  A few months ago I wrote about actually
making a living.  I alluded to the fact that working on players for
profit is a pipe dream.  This job adds fertilizer to that thought.

Failures can be the source of furthering one's education.  Going to
school is expensive.

I'm in the position with this particular case of minimizing my losses
through the manipulation of my assets.  It's cheaper to trade their
piano off on mine than to spend lots of time getting theirs going.  I
can be working on something that makes money instead of working on
something that has been a major expense for two technicians now.  The
other player wasn't going to sell any time soon, and if it had it would
have sold for such a low price that I wouldn't have come out on it
anyway.

PLAYER PIANO FOR SALE.  NEEDS WORK.  REFER TO SIG LINE FOR CONTACT DETAILS.

•               Larry Fisher RPT, Metro Portland, Oregon's
          Factory Preferred Installer for MSR/PianoDisc Products
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