Advice on selling the marimba

[elettaria]

Does anyone have advice on how to deal with the financial side of things, considering that it will most likely be a private sale? Cheque or bank transfer and wait for the funds to go through?

I've also got a few concerns about the condition which I've posted about here.

Marimba for Sale

£1200 (currently £2424 new)

Adams MCPV, most popular model



Range: 4 1/3 oct. A2-C7
Bars: Padouk 67-40 mm
Pitch A: 442 Hz.
Frame: Voyager
Length: 207 cm
Low end: 90 cm
High end: 40 cm
Height adjustment: 85-105 cm

EXCELLENT CONDITION

10 years old, hardly played due to illness

Contact E*** on 0777 *********

Central Edinburgh

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That's more or less the ad, although in the original it's all formatted nicely using different sizes etc. and the marimba's details are opposite the picture (don't think I can use columns on LJ), and of course it has my real name and phone number. I'm assuming that the issues I mentioned above aren't going to be problems, but I won't circulate the ad until I'm sure - and until the flat is tidier!

I did have a bit of a pang when I finally uncovered the marimba last night and it sat there calling to me, but just hitting each note to check the tuning has made it abundantly clear that I can't really hold mallets any more; my muscle strength is so poor that I can't hold a pen for more than a few words, and it's been like that for years.

Could some kind person with Photoshop or similar do a version of that picture which doesn't have the background, without distorting the picture of the marimba?

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Update

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

I just rang a percussion shop in London, and was told not to worry about the potential problems and to yank the price up to three-quarters instead of half, so I've put £1600 o.n.o. I hadn't realised that marimbas are tuned relatively sharp: a marimba A should be 442 Hz, and my tuning fork is 440. So the tuning is fine and it's nice to know that I can still hear a difference of 2 Hz. The bloom is normal, that's what happens with wood and I should just give it a polish, and the rough edges are apparently normal too. I'm still dithering over the price, but I reckon that we can always bargain, and that the price is low enough to give the buyer substantial savings and so should hook them in.