[pianotech] Project piano - photos

[George Bartlett]

I would certainly like to follow your progress.
George
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  From: Chuck Behm 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 4:15 PM
  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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