Baldwin Escane (sp?) replacement cost???

[Avery Todd]

Brian,

    Check out Rob Kiddell's home page tech document on this subject. Maybe
you'll get some ideas for the next time.

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/atonal/techdoc.html

Avery
At 11:04 AM 09/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I just did my first Escane (sp?) job on a Baldwin Hamilton c.1978.  What an
>awful job!  I used the "keep the hammer butts on the rail" technique shown
>to us at the 1998 Texas PTG convention last fall, but it was still such a
>pain.
>
>I found that I had to take off the hammer rest rail (cinch), repetition
>spring rail (still a cinch), and all of the damper mechanisms (still a
>cinch... but am I reaaaaally gonna save any time by removing all of this
>hardware?).  I also had to pull of the jack felts too?  Of course everything
>had to be regulated after reinstallation.
>
>Now that all of my fingers have been glued together at least once through
>this process, I have beautiful new butt-(leathers?), and catcher-(leather?),
>and yes the piano sounds so much better.  But did I save any time not
>pulling the butts off the rail like Baldwin says to do?
>
>What's a good price for this work, removal and replacement of all of the
>leathers, and complete upright regulation.  Would $1,000 be too much to
>charge for this miserable job?  I just wanted your opinions?
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Brian Henselman