Les said: "I use tune lab. Also have worn hearing aids for ten years, and that slows me down as well. So how do people bill their time when it runs substantially over your expected time? > Thanks" > > Les, Hmmm? And, pray tell, why wearing hearing aids "...slow me down"?? That's pure rubish imo. I wear hearing aids. I have for over 30 years. If anything, they help to speed me up, because I can hear what I need to hear instantly, instead of cocking my head, stuffing my head closer to the string, and a whole lot of such shananigans needed when you can't hear! Sheesh! That statement is a cop-out imo. Have I ever spent 4-5 hours on a piano? Yes. One comes to mind: 9 foot Baldwin, "re built", (yeah right!), and more underfelt friction problems and gawdawful string problems than you can imagine. I was doing my Mentor a favor for that one. Gave him a big butt bite afterwards! Never did it again and did refuse the second time around.<G> The comments about these pianos needing "work" are dead on. If it gets back to some manufacturing mucky muck, so be it. All manufacturers have produced crap at some time. None are perfect,..don't think they ever will be. Most Great Pianos were made that way by Great Technicians in an After Market situation imo. Best Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain of the Tool Police Squares R I
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