Hi Bob Since I live here in Europe and dont really know what the going rate for such things is overthere... I just tried to write in a very generalized fashion with regard to pricing. I simply meant that option one was the least expensive, option two a good deal more... perhaps twice as much... and option three even more so as it would involve bringing in an outside tech and having him teach. Perhaps some of that could be made up if some few voicing students were participants. As far as key and hammer weighting is concerned. I would definatly recommend doing a re-weighoff of the keys after any hammer installation. Factory prehung or not. One can use Stanwoods methods to duplicate the origional situation... or even it out a bit. But since Jeff is keen on keeping things as origional as possible he'd probably opt for the former. TMTOI :) Cheers RicB Ric, I like the options idea for Jeff. Perhaps I'm slow but I'm not following your pricing formula. price x amount of dollars? Price of parts multiplied by what amount? Especially option two with the Yamaha prehung. Can you explain a little more, since pricing appropriately sure does make or break us. I have been figuring the cost of parts plus some amount, then the number of labor hours times what I want to make per hour. Should Jeff figure in checking the key and hammer weighting and adjustments? Thanks, Bob E. Hull
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