[pianotech] Premium service

[David Love]

A vacuum and a dry paint brush cleans the pin area in a couple of minutes.
An understring sweeper in a few more.  That's what I was talking about.  If
you have to pull the action and clean the action cavity what does that take,
3-4 more minutes.  I suppose if you take a toothbrush to everything I could
probably take three hours but it's not necessary to get the dust out.  I
don't think I've ever polished a set of pedals as part of a cleaning job.
You have to draw the line somewhere.   I usually walk to the car, not crawl.


 

All this reminds me of my visit to the Charles Walter factory a couple of
years ago and how we all talk about how much time things take.  When I was
there I saw this woman pin a bridge in about 15 minutes.  She picked up
three pins at a time, set them right into the holes, bang, bang, bang with a
hammer and they were perfect.  She probably got paid 20% of what I charge
per hour and did the job in about 20% of the time.   I won't even tell you
about the stringer who could string an entire piano in about 90 minutes.
The message I took with me, quit complaining and pick up the pace.    

 

David Love

www.davidlovepianos.com

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of John Formsma
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:30 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Premium service

 

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:12 PM, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
wrote:

 

Honestly,I'm shocked that people are talking about spending 30 - 40 minutes
or more
cleaning.  It takes about 5.  

 

Maybe you should define "cleaning."  I guarantee you that you can't dust and
clean the SB underneath all the strings, bridges, hitch pins and understring
felt there, tuning pin area, action cavity, action, and polish all three
pedals in 5 minutes. It takes about 5 minutes to walk out to the car to get
the vacuum cleaner and find a nearby plug. So whatchoo talkin' 'bout,
Willis? :-)


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JF

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