---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment HI Ed, I find it the opposite way. Grand back checks, repetition springs, hammer line etc. takes quite a bit of time. The removal and installation of the hammers them self will be about the same time. Because of the regulation issues, (always more critical on a grand) it will take me almost twice as long. Regards Roger At 07:37 AM 4/11/2005, you wrote: >Jeff- > >In my experience, it almost always takes longer to do approximately >equivalent work on uprights. >Just to remove hammers, shanks and butts also involves installing the >action in a cradle, pulling the bridle tapes, probably removing the hammer >rest rail, and finally digging for the screws in the action. Etc., etc. > >I recently did an extensive rebuild of an old upright, new springs, new >cushions, new butts shanks and hammers, new damper levers. I'm not in a >hurry to repeat the job. > >Plus, a dismantled upright action takes 2-3 times more storage space than a >grand. > >Is this the kind of answer you were looking for? Hope it helps. > >Ed Sutton > > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Jeff Olson <jlolson@cal.net> > > To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org> > > Date: 4/9/2005 9:39:55 PM > > Subject: [CAUT] Pricing of upright versus grand hammer installation > > > > No need to name specific prices -- which would doubtless violate some > > obscure anti-trust law -- I'm just interested in what people here think >the > > "basic" price differential should be between installing grand and upright > > hammers, based on the respective labor typically necessary for the two > > (apart from the obvious purchase differential). > > > > After all these years, the question struck me with sudden force when I > > happened to undertake simultaneously three hammer hanging projects of > > each -- hammering home, so to speak, the relative difference in effort > > required. > > > > Best, > > > > JeffO > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/78/fe/f5/7d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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