At 21:53 +0100 4/6/08, David Boyce wrote: >...There are precious few rebuilders of the calibre of our august JD >of this list. And here was me thinking I was only beginning June! But then it's a long long while from May to September and I'm nearer October... > And those that there are, are not substantial employers and >trainers of others. It is not economically possible for them to be. >So the number of training places available with good rebuilders in >the UK is vanishingly small. As a matter of fact I'm seriously considering taking on an apprentice who really wants to learn the trade thoroughly and stick at it. In fact there are very few restorers in England of any quality and what people learn at the few schools there are, or have been, is very superficial. I had a girl (30!) down from London last week for three days, who works with some colleages of mine there for whom I do a bit of work, and she's coming again in July, when we'll talk a bit more about the long term, but I don't know yet how committed she is. There's so much to learn and it's no trade for the part-timer, let alone the botcher. Alicia is welcome to visit us when she's in England. Here's an article I've just uploaded showing upright damper recovering: <http://pianomaker.co.uk/technical/upright_dampers/> JD -- ______________________________________________________________________ Delacour Pianos * Silo * Deverel Farm * Milborne St. Andrew Dorset DT11 0HX * England Phone: +44 1202 731031 Mobile: +44 7801 310 689 * Fax: +44 870 705 3241 ______________________________________________________________________
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