Manufacturing costs

[Thos. D. Carpenter]

HOLES, HOLES, HOLES.
THE HOLES,
I SUPPOSE,
AS RESTS,
I WOULD GUESS,
BE  DIVINE,
MAY I PINE,
TO THE SOUL,
ON THE WHOLE,
AS THE HOLE.

later,
tom`s byte



-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Nossaman <nossaman@SOUTHWIND.NET>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: Manufacturing costs


>>Does anyone have any information regarding he breakdown of costs
associated
>>with piano manufacturing? Specifically, I'm interested in knowing what
>>percentage individual components contribute to the overall cost to make a
>>piano. For instance: a set of hammers = x% of the total, the case = y%,
the
>>soundboard = z%. Please feel free to be as specific or as general as you
are
>>able. I'd love a breakdown of each individual part but am just as happy to
>>know about the whole action or the entire case.
>>
>>Several manufacturers who I wrote to called this information "privileged"
or
>>"confidential" and therefore wouldn't help me.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Donn Young, RPT
>>Pianos@Bigfoot.com
>
>
>Hi Don,
>It seems that you haven't yet gotten any bites, or bytes either, for that
>matter. I don't have specific details, but I think I can safely assure you
>that, categorically, the one most expensive item in piano manufacture is
the
>holes. There are very few parts in a piano that don't have at least one
>carefully designed, meticulously located, and precision fabricated hole.
>Some of the parts have hundreds of them, and they all cost money to
install.
>Some parts even have holes in which are other parts which, themselves, have
>a hole, in which yet another part is installed. For extra credit, who can
>name the parts?
>
>Sorry, this isn't what you wanted, but it's late, and I'm weak. I hope
>someone has some real information for you.
>
>
> Ron N