Grand Cleaning

[Willem Blees]

Matthew



You've gotten some good advice, but what I have not seen is what?I used to do in St. Louis, and something I am going to start?doing for?my customer here in Hawaii. For grands, I take the action home and?clean the keys, vacuum under the keys, tighten the screws and shape the hammers. When I return to the customer, I vacuum out the action cavity, clean the soundboard with a damp rag, using?a soundboard steel, clean the plate and vacuum the pin area using a hard bristle paint brush.?The most important part of this is cleaning the soundboard and the pin area because?that is what the customer sees. One other thing I will do is clean the pedals. The?salt air here on the island corrodes?most pedals. But all you will have to do is polish them. It adds a nice touch. It will take about 2?hours to do all of this, plus a second trip to the customer's house, so price it accordingly. 


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at yahoo.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 7:06 am
Subject: Grand 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.

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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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