Dear List, At the risk of sounding like a commercial, here's some info on what looks like a potentially useful resource: "PIANO TECHNICAL JOB AND WORK GUIDE THE PIANO TECHNICIANS GUIDE is a job time and work guide for more than 400 common repair, service and restoration procedures each for grand pianos, uprights and spinets, listed in a new convenient pocket format printed on durable heavy stock. This is a completely revised and expanded version of a guide produced in 1967-68 with several new features. Every line has been re-evaluated in light of real job situations and its merit to the piano, the technician and the owner or musician. For the piano retail manager THE GUIDE can provide a means of assessing the costs of repairs for a customer, maintaining time control on shop projects and having some understanding of the piano technical staff's field operations and time investments. For the piano technician THE GUIDE provides insight into job requirements, job control, inventory requirements, work guides to eliminate oversights, a means for consistent results as well as an idea of how long complex and extensive operations may take. Additionally, for the new piano technician or student of piano technology THE GUIDE provides goals for improvement, aids in determining relative job merits and guides for estimates and appraisals." THE PIANO TECHNICIANS GUIDE can be obtained through the PTG Home Office (816) 753-7747 or from the author: Newton J. Hunt. Regards, John Piesik Piesik's Piano Service Carlsbad, CA JPIESIK@ARINC.COM
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