[pianotech] Rebuilding costs - was NY Times article on pianos

[Terry Farrell]

Hi Joe - thanks for the clarification. My comments were directed specifically to your statements of "REAL rebuilding" and "got it all".  Unfortunately, too many folks use that kind of description too loosely IMHO. IMHO, that tends to confuse/obscure the meaning of a true remanufacture - and especially a true redesign and remanufacture. The "got it all" comment is pretty much what got me. If it "got it all", then I can only presume that there is nothing left to do......  That's where I'm coming from.

Terry Farrell


On Jul 31, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Joseph Garrett wrote:

> Terry said: 
> "Indeed, it was off the mark - my intent was to criticize Joe for
> exaggerating "REAL rebuilding" and "got it all" - that's all. Only his use
> of terms. I can't imagine that anyone who knows what they are doing would
> do a complete belly, action, keyboard and case - i.e. complete
> rebuild/remanufacture - for 1/3 the cost of a comparable Pleyel upright. I
> mean what does a new Pleyel upright cost? Heck, maybe I'm way off base here
> - wouldn't be the first time. But I suspect maybe not this time....."
> 
> Terry,
> You're not off very far. I chose not to quote the price for my rebuilding
> of that German Upright for reasons known only to me and my client.<G> I did
> a Rebuild and NOT a Remanufacture. Big difference in my addled mind. Also,
> I said the piano did not get a Refinishing of the case, per the clients
> wishes. It got everything it NEEDED and a bit more. As for the price of the
> Pleyel thang, I should have said a K52 and then you would have understood.
> I used the Pleyel because, from a musical standpoint the Pleyel was a
> closer match in musical and aesthetic beauty. Prices would be about the
> same...that is IF Pleyel were still available in the U.S., which it is not.
> They stopped marketing in the U.S. a few years ago, sadly. Love those
> pianos.<G>
> The actual numbers would be approximately 1/2 of what a new piano would
> have cost. IF the case refinishing would have been done the cost of the
> Rebuild would have been approximately 25% less than a new comparable piano.
> Get it? Good. Sorry if you misunderstood my intent in stating the
> comparisons. And, as I already said: Big apology to Wim. He just tends to
> hit my buttons the wrong way.<G> Hopefully, he won't send a hit man after
> me.<G>
> Joe 
> 
> 
> Joe Garrett, R.P.T.
> Captain of the Tool Police
> Squares R I
> 

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