Amen to your comments!  Addenda:

  "There are a couple of those little hoses off, but I'm sure it
   will work if they are replaced."

  "The piano was put in this room in 1906, and I guess over the
   years there was some remodeling done.  Can't you take it apart
   and get it through the door in sections?"

   Proclaimed with great pride: "It used to be just an old black
   piano, so we spray-painted it silver and then my wife sprayed
   those gold stars over the silver with a decal I made for her."

I am sure each of us could add to your list ad nauseam!!  The other
remarkable thing about your triplet title is that all three things
-- boats, pool tables and player pianos -- are generally purchased
only when _everything_ else on the "want list" has been taken care of!

W. Deane Wiley

 [ Lou Berger, the great player piano marketer, called this the
 [ buyer's "recreation money."  When Lou worked for Aeolian and
 [ Wurlitzer and Baldwin and Universal his marketing was aimed at
 [ convincing the guy with spare "recreation money" to spend it on
 [ the player piano instead of the pool table, etc.  -- Robbie