Got some dough to blow, good prices on strings/hammers??

[Stephen Airy]

I don't even have a credit card, and right now I don't have a job.  I
just happen to have some dinero to spend (thanks to my b'day last
month).

Let me get something straight:  This is my first piano, so I'm NOT
planning a full-on restoration.  All I want to do is fix the cracks in
the bass bridge, replace the strings and tuning pins (keeping the
original pinblock), and replace the hammers (and regulate the action). 
I don't want to pull the plate, shim the soundboard (there are no
visible cracks), and things like that.  Maybe on my next Wing & Son,
Steinway & Sons, Wm Knabe, Hallet & Davis, Lester, Kimball, Vose &
Sons, Mason & Hamlin, etc. art-case upright, I might consider it.

On Wed, 08 May 2002 16:00:24 -0400, "Greg Newell"
<gnewell@ameritech.net> said:
> Keith,
>          Points well taken. I don't know his situation but yours are
>          some 
> very relevant thoughts. Thanks!!
> 
> Greg
> 
> At 01:54 PM 5/8/2002, you wrote:
> >>How would I do that?
> >>
> >>On Wed, 08 May 2002 09:52:56 -0400, "Greg Newell"
> >><gnewell@ameritech.net> said:
> >>>
> >>>  Stephen,
> >>>           You seem somewhat serious in your endeavors in piano
> >>>           technology.
> >>>  Why not set up an account with the various supply houses yourself?
> >>  > Greg
> >>
> >>   Stephen Airy
> >>   stephenairy@fastmail.fm
> >
> >Stephen, Greg, List,
> >
> >By the mere factor of asking how one would set up an account with a place 
> >of business sends a significant signal to me that legal age might be a 
> >very relevant factor here. I'm certainly willing to be corrected of course.
> >
> >Also, working on one's own piano doesn't really equate to being in the 
> >business of tuning and repairing pianos, which is the primary purpose, as 
> >I have always understood it to be, of the piano supply houses that have 
> >existed prior to the internet supply houses that have arisen over time 
> >which more easily serve private consumers as well.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Keith McGavern
> >Registered Piano Technician
> >Oklahoma Chapter 731
> >Piano Technicians Guild
> >USA
> >http://www.highpointpiano.com/ptg/conv/chicago2002/
> 
> 
> 

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