Plastic parts reply

[James Grebe]

Hi Keith,
 How much would you say you would charge for labor for the same job now?
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G
pianoman@inlink.com
Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups and Practical Piano Peripherals in
St. Louis, MO
-----Original Message-----
From: kam544@earthlink.net <kam544@earthlink.net>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: Plastic parts


>>...Instead of replacing the back check, the jacks and the flanges,
wouldn't it
>>have been much easier, and less time consuming, to replace the whole
>>wippen?...
>>Wim
>
>Bob A., Wim, List,
>
>I re-examined my records and discovered I took the route you mention, Wim,
>back in September 1980.
>
>Here are the figures:
>
>Damper levers - $40.18
>Wippens - $95.94
>Tax - $5.44
>Labor - $80.00
>
>Seemed like a fortune back then to charge that much.  What a hoot!  That
>was three years before my initial contact with the Piano Technicians Guild.
>
>Keith McGavern
>kam544@earthlink.net
>Registered Piano Technician
>Oklahoma Chapter 731
>Piano Technicians Guild
>USA
>
>