Online piano appraisal form

A technician in the LA area who identifies himself only as Leo has an online appraisal form that's worth looking at.

This piano store in West Covina is at the end of an off-ramp from the San Bernadino (10) freeway. In the past ten years, seven cars have crashed into the store coming off the freeway — twice in the past year alone. Read news article....
And here's a post from 2005 on the same subject.

Sacramento Bee portrait of Antonio Bombal

The house smells of parchment, of lotion, of culture, of memories, of loneliness, of disappointment. Listen. There is the barely perceptible cry of a dying chord, so sweetly plaintive, so exquisitely formed. Antonio Bombal, who walks with a stoop, goes into his spacious library. The walls are lined with books. Bombal speaks five languages, reads Latin and Greek. read full article