A few months back, I had an email inquiry from someone, not a client, who had refinished her old upright. She wanted to know about leveling the keys. I offered to come and do it but she just wanted free advice. I started talking about punchings, front and center rails, key height and key dip, then very quickly realized that I could wind up spending a lot of time trying to type out a lot of free advice, so I directed her to the local library which has the Reblitz book. Come to think of it, I'm not absolutely certain Reblitz has key leveling and dip regulation, but I would imagine that it does. I haven't heard another peep out of her. I should dig up the old emails and follow up to see how it came out. Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:49 AM, joel a. jones <jajones2 at wisc.edu> wrote: > List, > > Situation: Recently retired professional. Has plenty of time, and > claims to be an amateur wood worker. Sold their house and are moving. Time > to fix the piano or..... I give him an estimate for > the repair. As we talked he asked if there were things he could do as this > was of interest to him. > > Can I do some repair and save some money??????? > > Glimpsing his copy of Reblitz I answered I charge XXX an hour if you help. > He said GREAT ! Many hours later and twice the amount I quoted > he was still saying GREAT ! > > 1. He found that the regulation, cleaning was time consuming and very > refined. > > 2. He found a new respect for what was involved in the repair of his piano, > and the skill > I have developed over the years in my profession. > > 3. It is now HIS piano and he is proud of his accomplishment. He has a > big investment in that > piano, and the education was worth the price to him. > > I took a great leap of faith with this customer, and I'm glad I followed my > intuiation. > Anybody have this type of experience? > > > Joel Jones, RPT > Madison, WI > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080801/ac724640/attachment.html
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