[CAUT] Pricing of upright versus grand hammer installation

[Roger Jolly]

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HI Ed,
               I find it the opposite way.
Grand back checks, repetition springs, hammer line etc. takes quite a bit 
of time.   The removal and installation of the hammers them self will be 
about the same time.
Because of the regulation issues, (always more critical on a grand) it will 
take me almost twice as long.

Regards Roger



At 07:37 AM 4/11/2005, you wrote:
>Jeff-
>
>In my experience, it almost always takes longer to do approximately
>equivalent work on uprights.
>Just to remove hammers, shanks and butts also involves installing the
>action in a cradle, pulling the bridle tapes, probably removing the hammer
>rest rail, and finally digging for the screws in the action.  Etc., etc.
>
>I recently did an extensive rebuild of an old upright, new springs, new
>cushions, new butts shanks and hammers, new damper levers.  I'm not in a
>hurry to repeat the job.
>
>Plus, a dismantled upright action takes 2-3 times more storage space than a
>grand.
>
>Is this the kind of answer you were looking for? Hope it helps.
>
>Ed Sutton
>
>
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Jeff Olson <jlolson@cal.net>
> > To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
> > Date: 4/9/2005 9:39:55 PM
> > 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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