This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment All my professional life, I have considered the phrase, the right tool for the right job. I tuned pianos until I could afford the tools to do the next bigger job and then I could do that job. Some items I would do without the right tool and it took forever to finish. Today I have about a 100 foot wall covered in workbenches and pegboards of tools. It has literally taken the last thirty plus years to acquire them. Four years ago I had some lowlifes break down my back door and steal about $4000. worth of tools. The drill box, the electric screwdriver box, the pipe voicing box. Luckily they did not get the really good stuff, but I am still finding things I need and then I realize I haven't replaced them since the burglary. I did without a upright piano tilter for twenty years. Did not know how badly I needed it or how much easier it would make so many jobs. When it comes to new shoes for a keyboard, I only do one every couple of years. I have the Schaff Fiber donut system that works very well. I have done the maple wooden block glued into the dadoed out key thing and I did not find it took more than a few hours. I have not had any problem with the fiber donut system rattling, but I have only done 8-10 of those. The $550. version of the key shoe replacer is, I am sure a quality system. However, I simply do not do enough of these to make it worth that much to me. It would literally take a decade to pay for itself in reshoeing projects. D.L. Bullock St. Louis www.thepianoworld.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1b/d0/f6/01/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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