Failed string splicing -- charge for time?

[Porritt, David]

I've been reading this thread on charging for repairs-that-fail with
interest.  I don't want to be ridged but in general I've always thought
of a repair as a repair...i.e. it's either fixed or not fixed.  If it's
not fixed I've not felt that I could charge the customer for not fixing
it.  If I've had doubt about a possible fix working, I've explained it
to the customer and left it up to them if they want to pay for an
attempt at a fix.  If I'm confident I can fix something and I fail, then
I don't charge.  I've just never figured out how I'd list it on the
invoice.  Something like: "couldn't fix (whatever).....$10.00"  ?!?

 

dave

 

 

David M. Porritt, RPT

dporritt at smu.edu

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Fenton Murray
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:49 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Failed string splicing -- charge for time?

 

Do you charge for your splicing attempts that fail? :-)

Any repair that I consider my self an expert at I charge for, if I'm
learning or experimenting and it fails, I might eat it.

Fenton

 

	----- Original Message ----- 

	From: John Formsma <mailto:formsma at gmail.com>  

	To: Pianotech List <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>  

	Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 3:36 PM

	Subject: Re: Failed string splicing -- charge for time?

	 

	On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Joe And Penny Goss
<imatunr at srvinet.com> wrote:

	Hi John,

	With the concert use and distance. I would not replace the
string, but alter the damper head to control sustain.

	I have never been able to splice a Yamaha bass string. The
swedge seems to be too close to where the knot is,

	and the string breaks again every time. But still I try to
splice.

	 

	Joe,

	 

	The strange thing about it was that the damper worked without
needing any modification.

	 

	I should have mentioned before that the splice was above the
pressure bar. The string broke at the tuning pin.

	 

	Do you charge for your splicing attempts that fail? :-)

	 

	-- 
	JF 

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