yeah. Don't leave home without it! Terry Peterson Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:15:49 -0400 From: aartinamerica at optonline.net Subject: Re: Grand Cleaning To: pianotech at ptg.org Hi Paul. Could you recommend a technique for cleaning the soundboard? Thanks, Aart On Mar 28, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Paul T Williams wrote: Matthew, You'd be suprised at how many folks will pay for cleaning jobs. You might notice in nicer homes if a cleaning person works there. That's a good target market. Yes, several levels of cleaning works well for me. I always dust off the piano anyway after a tuning just as a nice gesture. My prices would vary as to how dirty the piano is, but would offer further services like polishing pedals, sanitizing keys, cleaning action as well as keybed, etc. The full monty includes soundboard, full plate, (even under strings with Q-tips) polishing cabinet, using furnature markers for covering scratches,keybed, action, damperheads, etc. All in all, anything you can reach! That does take quite a bit of time. Hope this helps. Paul Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at yahoo.com> Sent by: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 03/28/2008 12:22 PM Please respond to Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> Topianotech at ptg.org ccSubjectGrand Cleaning A client wants me to come over and clean her Kawai grand. This will be my first, and I was curious as to what kind of service(s) I can offer her. According to the 'G' piano works labor guide, a complete grand cleaning can take as long as 3.5 hrs. When I talked with my client, she had only mentioned about cleaning the soundboard, but then again, she may not realize all the dust that can accumulate in her keybed, etc. What kind of cleaning services do you all offer? Do you offer the most basic service and go up to the most complete cleaning? When I go through a car wash, I can pay three bucks, and all they'll do is hose my car down. Or I can pay more for scrubbing, and even more to get the wheels done. I just need advice on how to sort this out. 3.5 hrs sounds like a great service, but I don't know how many clients are willing to pay that. Thanks in advance! Matthew Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. _________________________________________________________________ How well do you know your celebrity gossip? http://originals.msn.com/thebigdebate?ocid=T002MSN03N0707A -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080328/64771a90/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: soundboard.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 9578 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080328/64771a90/attachment-0001.jpg
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