[pianotech] Project piano - photos

[Dean May]

Chuck

 

You should post them to the list.

 

Dean

Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 

PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 

Terre Haute IN  47802

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Chuck Behm
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:46 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] Project piano - photos

 

Hi all - If any of you out there who have toyed with the idea of trying a
restoration project for the first time, you might be interested in this. We
just began teardown of a Walworth upright today that we will be doing quite
a bit of work to. The piano belonged to the owner's mother, who, as a child,
signed the cast iron plate, along with her sisters. The estimate for the
work to be done was $9,000. The owner is perfectly aware of what that amount
of money could buy new, but that's not what he wants. 

As we work on the piano, we will be taking a photographic record, as the
owner has requested, of the work being done. This running record of the work
will be e-mailed to him as we go along once or twice a week. Dave will be
starting work on the case immediately. I have another couple jobs to
complete before I start on the inner workings. 

If any of you would like to watch the project as it unfolds, to see what
this type of work involves,  I would be more than happy to send the pictures
to you as well as we go. Just let me know, and you'll go on a list to
receive the pictures. I'll try to include some explanation of what we are
doing as well. We're hoping to have the entire job done by mid-summer.

This is the type of job both Dave and I just love to do. Being able to bring
a family instrument back to life, after it has been neglected for decades,
just feeds my soul.

 Let me know if you want to be included on the list of people to be sent the
pictures.  Chuck

P.S. If someone would consider doing this type of photographic record of
putting in a new soundboard, I would love to see that done from start to
finish, as I would guess others would as well.

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