Regulating and beyond always comes into the shop. First of all, I don't like working on dirty, dust crusted pianos. All pianos get blow out and cleaned before I work on them. Secondly, you can't bring your shop and all your tools and power tools to someone's house. If you don't, you will make due or make several trips to do the job right. When a piano is in my shop, it will be 100% when it's finished. It's very difficult or impossible to prepare for every eventuality in someone home. If I need to fix or make a part, I want to be able to do it and make sure it works right. It's just the way I do things. Al From: lee innocent Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:47 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Upright Action Restorations Hello list, When carrying out restoration work on just the action of an upright piano, how many of you take the whole piano back to the workshop? This was the general routine when I used to work for the shop. They would include removal/delivery charges in the quote. This way, all work would be done in the shop and removers would take the piano back to customer when job was complete, no need for technician to attend. Those of you who do not take the piano away, when you return the action, how much time do you allocate for regulation at the customers home? Lee Innocent -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090923/623fae8a/attachment.htm>
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