High quality?

[Susan Kline]

Hi, Cuz

I agree with what you've written.

Part of the discussion should be the breakdown between
the cost of parts and the cost of labor. Usually labor is
a lot more than parts, which is why people usually buy new
parts like wippens instead of painstakingly refurbishing
the old ones (which I did once, but only once.)

If a cheap grand is worth rebuilding at _all_, one would
think it was worth at least _adequate_ (if not elegant) parts.

Susan

At 04:14 PM 1/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>  Define "high quality". :-)
>
>  The better the quality of material used in any rebuild the better the
>overall outcome will be. The question really is whether it is worth the extra
>cost 'usually' associated with "better quality". Said another way will the
>gain in tonal qualities equal the gain in expense??? Don't know the answer to
>this one...What kind of grand, i.e., make/model are we hypothetically
>speaking of?
>Jim Bryant (FL)