Tom,<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure you understood my point (or maybe I'm not understanding yours). <img src="cid:330@goomoji.gmail" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle; " goomoji="330"> What you wrote is partly my point. The suggestion I was trying to get across is that I would never just slop on hardener and call it good. One could easily suggest that it's not worth charging for a job like that because it literally would take one minute or less from the moment you reached for the bottle until it was put back away - kind of like charging to tighten a loose screw. But the point was that I would feel like I was being sloppy and thoughtless if I were to do such a thing. Remember, in my example, I was just, "making it louder." Not even, not nice, just louder. If we wanted better control and performance (evenness and shading, and etc.) then we proceed with my initial suggestion which was to address all the incorrect things first - pinnings, bushings, hammer shape, worn felts/leathers, lubrication, screws, regulation and THEN worry about the subtleties of voicing.<div>
<br></div><div>William R. Monroe<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Tom Gorley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomgorley88@sonic.net">tomgorley88@sonic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">No matter how easy a job is, there should be a charge.<div> #1, for knowing how, and </div><div> #2, doing something like that can lead to more work in balancing out the different hardnesses that result.<div>
<font color="#223aa8" face="'Corsiva Hebrew'"><span style="font-size:20px"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 58, 168);font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-size:20px"><span><b> </b></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34, 58, 168);font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-size:20px"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Tom Gorley</span></span><div>
<span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font color="#910f08">Registered Piano Technician </font></span></div>
<div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(62, 0, 147)"><span><b> </b></span></div></span></div></div></blockquote></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(62, 0, 147)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><br></span></div>
</span></div></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal"><br></div></span><br>
</div>
<br><div><div>On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:12 PM, William Monroe wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"> It can be made louder by just drizzling acetone/keytop across the whole mess without even removing the action, for no charge. But would you stand by that work?</span></blockquote>
</div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>
</div></div>