Grand Cleaning

[Paul T Williams]

Get the Spurlock soundboard cleaning tools.  They work great!

Paul




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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:

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> 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
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> 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.
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> Thanks in advance!
>  Matthew
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