Fw: Keyboard Repair Pics

[Farrell]

"They are and they look great! I'm rather impressed. I'm not sure that I
would have bothered. I probably would have given it up for dead."

Thanks Greg. I hope it is obvious that there are two "before" pics included
in the set! This piano was in the lobby of a local hospital. I had a long
conversation with my hospital contact (head of maintenance!). He did not
have the slightest clue what I was talking about when I described
rebuilding. I even brought up the topic of just getting a new piano.
However, he made it clear that the piano was donated by the husband (a very
influential dude apparently) of a woman who died at the hospital - "that
piano will be back in this lobby NO MATTER WHAT". He didn't care if it
played or anything, he just wanted it back in the lobby standing straight!

"Did you
price this well enough for you to make money or was this just for the
experience?"


I thought I had priced it well enough. Now however, I see that maybe I
should have gone a little higher. My proposal had $1250 alotted for labor.
Actually though, I think for someone that has torn many pianos apart and has
his/her shop all set up, etc. the labor fee would be OK. It's hard for me to
come out good on some of my projects because so many things I am doing for
the first time, and I am using new tools. This is the first keybed I have
ever tried to fix. I was lucky that the termites had disassembled most of it
for me (I did not have to do ANY cutting to get the doweled and glued keybed
out - two or three good yanks and it came right out - not even a whack with
a hammer!). (I likely spent a good three hours just staring at the bloody
thing before I ripped into it, trying to figure out where to start!) I
bought a planer (the new DeWald 12-1/2" job - really, really works nice) for
the job (this tool was super critical as the keybed ends were a sandwich
construction and required exact proper board thicknesses), and it was only
the second time I had ever used a router - the first time I had used one
with a router table - which I had to make - I also had to make a fence for
the router (I used my router as a jointer - really, really works slick - ran
my 1-1/4" thick oak board through it to straighten it and trim its width to
perfection!). So I spend lots of time learning how to use the new tool and
making zillions of jigs and reading about the tool, etc. It's very difficult
to figure out exactly how much time I actually spent on the piano.

But I sure am learning a lot about piano construction!

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Newell" <gnewell@ameritech.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Keyboard Repair Pics


Terry,
    They are and they look great! I'm rather impressed. I'm not sure that I
would have bothered. I probably would have given it up for dead. Did you
price this well enough for you to make money or was this just for the
experience?

Greg

Farrell wrote:

> I posted the pictures as Brian suggested. I hope they are there!
>
> Terry Farrell
>
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> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 12:47 PM
> Subject: Pics
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