OT: Piano Tuner

[Charles Farinella]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 09:22, Jon maddog Hall wrote:

> I don't know who Charlie is, but Ed Bordeleau of PianoArts in Hookset/Manchester
> does a good job of piano restoration.  He has done a couple of player pianos
> for me.

I am Charlie.  :-)  And you would know me if you saw me.  Before I was a
geek, I was a piano technician for over 25 years in Southern California
and here in NH.  No player pianos though.  :-)

--charlie

> You can reach Ed at 1-800-439-2897 or 1-603-485-2885
> 
> Unless you have a lot of sentimental value attached to the piano, or unless it
> is a valuable antique, it would probably be less expensive to go onto Ebay
> and buy a used, refurbished piano than to refurbish one that is in really
> bad shape.
> 
> To bring this back on topic, I would be happy to someday give my talk of why
> Free and Open Source Software is like a player piano.  I have added more
> similarities, plus added more pictures of my collection and sound-bytes of
> music (love that Open Office!)
> 
> md
-- 
Charles Farinella 
Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com)
cfarinella at AppropriateSolutions.com
603.924.6079