[CAUT] Pricing of upright versus grand hammer installation

[David Love]

Are you talking about just replacing the hammers on original shanks?  It
really depends on what you are doing.  Removing upright hammer heads
takes longer, gluing them on takes about the same, rebalancing the
action takes longer on a grand (depending on how you do it).  Too many
variables to give an easy answer.    

David Love
davidlovepianos@comcast.net 

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Jeff Olson
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 6:39 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] Pricing of upright versus grand hammer installation

No need to name specific prices -- which would doubtless violate some 
obscure anti-trust law -- I'm just interested in what people here think
the 
"basic" price differential should be between installing grand and
upright 
hammers, based on the respective labor typically necessary for the two 
(apart from the obvious purchase differential).

After all these years, the question struck me with sudden force when I 
happened to undertake simultaneously three hammer hanging projects of 
each -- hammering home, so to speak, the relative difference in effort 
required.

Best,

JeffO



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