I've only replaced hammer butt springs once, on a lowly Lowrey console... it took me just under four hours. Being new at a lot of this stuff, I wondered what the heck I'd done wrong, but we'd just had a chapter technical on it, so I was pretty certain I was OK. Funny (?) thing was about a week later the teacher I did it for told me that students were still complaining about repetition on a couple notes... turned out to be some simple regulation adj (forget what, but not springs). I sold the job based on about 25-30 broken springs, she bought it based on students not being able to play... couldn't be anything to do with the REST of the piano... (same teacher OK'd a student's mom buying a spinet for $100... when I went to tune it I found about a dozen hammers with no felt... did I mention it was a spinet too? for $100?) As I typed the previous, I was thinking about all the discussion here about "good enough for a kid to learn on." I decided that's like a math teacher saying that "2+2=about 4.024", or a woodshop instructor patting the white pine chair (dripping sap) and saying "This is white oak." Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On 11/29/07, Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > It's been a couple years since I've replaced all the hammer butt springs > on a vertical. I need to give a guy an estimate. I looked in Joe Garrett's > labor guide and it says four hours. Seems to me it took me a lot longer than > that - but maybe I'm slow - and besides, my memory ain't what it used to be > (I think). Any opinions on labor time once the action is in my shop? > > Thanks. > > Terry Farrell > Farrell Piano > > www.farrellpiano.com > terry at farrellpiano.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071129/ba512d9a/attachment.html
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