<div>Send 'em to Schaff or Walker Piano Service and have them recover them. They'll come back looking nice, the customer will be happy, and you can make a buck, too. After all, you've got to go there twice (once to pick up keys, once to drop them off), you've got to go to the post office to mail them, you've got to level and space them once they're back in the piano, and then there's the postage, too; so add an appropriate service fee on top of the cost of recovering the keys.</div> <div> </div> <div>It would be labor intensive to do it yourself. And, speaking for myself, they wouldn't come out as nice looking.</div> <div> </div> <div>Tom Sivak</div> <div>Chicago<BR><BR><B><I>John Ross <jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <STYLE>.hmmessage P { PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px;
PADDING-TOP: 0px } BODY.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16544" name=GENERATOR> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>There is a guide available, from either PTG, or Randy Potter, that has the suggested time for different jobs.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>When I started I didn't charge the customer for the time it took me, I charged for the time I thought it should have taken me. </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>I didn't know about there being a guide, and at that time, there probably wasn't.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>I always felt that the customer should not be paying for my learning experience.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px;
PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=hoppsmusic@hotmail.com href="mailto:hoppsmusic@hotmail.com">Steven Hopp</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:50 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Replacement Keytops Pricing</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <BR>Hello again,<BR> <BR>I am now proud to say I am an official associate member of PTG (Austin TX Chapter) and am looking forward to testing and RPT status in the future. My question is as follows:<BR> <BR>What is a fair retail price for new white keytops? Black Keytops? Labor plus materials? About how
long does it take an experienced person (of which I am not in this area) to do the job? I am looking at it as a learning experience so am willing to not feel like a huge profit, if any, is necessary. What would be a good product choice for a Gulbransen console? Thanks again.<BR> <BR>Steven Hopp<BR>Midland TX<BR><BR> <HR> Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. <A href="http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline" target=_new>Stop by today!</A> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>