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Restoring the Unrestorable
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Restoring the Unrestorable |
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This is our Hall of Shame This page is for those items that are a crying shame or in some cases certain technicians should be ashamed but probably aren't. This is a little Marantz Nickelodeon I often talk to people about piano moving. When they tell me they want to move their piano themselves, I strongly suggest they use a qualified "Piano" mover, not just a house mover. Some house movers have a person or crew that are experienced moving many pianos, but most do not. This little piano was coming to our shop for a few hundred dollars of repair and adjustment. When it got here it looked like this. What happened? Some friends had a pickup and they were being paid with a six-pack is what I suspect. The hundreds of dollars of repair turned into a couple of thousand really fast when it flipped off the back of the pickup truck. The fallboard was crushed. The coin op box with both tape players was destroyed. The whole treble side now dangles by some screws and wires totally unattached to the rest of the piano. The obvious problems aside, there is now a crack totally separating the pin block from the timbers supporting it. The crack runs from bass to treble end. I immediately took the tension off the strings so the whole back does not fold up and break in half.
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