Meeting today, talking about agraffe repair and vertical damper regulation, in one's shop, of course. I don't have a shop, and am known mostly for my tuning. But I have done some regulation, and all of it has been in home, more than once lasting several days. I'd just blathering to recommend doing such work in-home has some advantages. I restrung a Steinway M. years ago for a retired shop teacher, who I charged about 1/3 what I should have. At that price he gagged. When I got into the action, I found I couldn't even regulate it, so told him I'd have to replace hammers-shanks-flanges, and again I charged him way too little. He double gagged when I told him the price. Long story made short. About half way into the regulation work, he said to me, "I am going to hand you a blank check, and I want you to write in what this is worth." I have to do most everything I do in-home, but each time I have done something like this in-home people have expressed great appreciation for the intricacy involved, and the complexity of this thing called "piano". They have always been really happy to pay what I asked, usually saying I under priced myself. So, I don't have any axe to grind, just a thought that perhaps time spent doing work in-home can pay unexpected results in a positive way. Les Bartlett Houston -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120310/f6446e67/attachment.htm>
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