Shipping a piano from Overseas

[Farrell]

I would like to know more about all this. My information is that ivory
blanks for one keyboard run about $600 (got that at a booth in Arlington).
Having ivory installed on a full keyboard runs about $3,000
(http://www.brownfieldpiano.com/actions.htm)- so I guess you would be
looking at about $2,400 labor to install the ivory. The same place charges
$1,800 for a bone keyboard job. I trust the bone blanks are reletively low
cost. So you have perhaps $1,700 labor for bone keytop installation. I only
assumed from this that ivory must be harder to work with?????

What's the deal?

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don" <drpt@sk.sympatico.ca>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: Shipping a piano from Overseas


> Hi Kwang,
>
> If the customs people destroy your ivory I suggest replacing it with bone.
> Ivory so I am led to believe was a "cheap" subsitue for bone as bone is
> much harder to "work" on.
>
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
>
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