Live and learn Marshall. There must come a time when the customer will either pay you for the work that you are doing, or the work does not get done. We've all been in the position where we've taken a job only to regret it later not knowing or realizing until it is to late that if you look at it funny or breath on it wrong, something else breaks. Old plastic action parts is a prime example. Try replacing one broken damper, touch the neighboring damper and that one too, breaks. This must be explained to the customer for future liability on your behalf that more can and will likely go wrong. I would personally advise them to either repair it correctly, or get rid of it. I would also inform them of this before you do much more with it. The unfortunate thing is, that if you did not inform them of the additional work before you started any of it, most of what you have just done will be "on the house" because they did not approve it. If jacks are tipping sideways, hitting two notes, that means you have more unglued jacks.. I hate those kinds of jobs. Jer From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Marshall Gisondi Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 3:09 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] plate Hi William, Imagine an iron sound board. wow that would be like lifting a battle ship. lol I was also curious when you guys trip the jack when putting on bridel straps, do you ever get some side playin the jack and it tends to want to lift the hammer next to it or two together. This customer as I shake my head in dusgust doesn't want to put too much $$ into this piano and only wants me to do what is necessary to make it so his wife can practice onit. If it falls apart, he'll upgrade. He plans to eventually anyway. the piano is an old Harrington by Beckwith. I'm leary about replacing every bridel strap because if I touch a jack the wrong way it will fall off. lol I take a small screw driver and gently trip the jack since the toe on tis action is tricky to get to. I m concerned I'll have to spend even more time trying to keep this thing together. It needs a complete overhall which they won't do. I'm sorry I took this job which started out as two notes not playing, one unglued jack and one bridel strap replacement and turned into abut 22 replaced straps and about 6 or 7 reglued jacks. I also had to glue a jack spring in the slot where it connects to the jack. Normally it just sits in there nice and snug. I'll try not to breathe on the action for fear it will crumble. I better not eat garlic later. lol Marshall Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org <http://www.pianotuningschool.org/> Vancouver, WA _____ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390710/direct/01/> now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100129/72932a61/attachment.htm>
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