<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Oh, don't get your feathers in a ruffle Joe  ;-).  I service many spinets and don't have any particular problem with them. If fact, I have been recommending one to a couple of clients looking for a piano - one of my long-time clients is selling her 1968 Yamaha spinet - for its size, a very lovely piano indeed.  But then again, for every Yamaha spinet and well-preserved Acrosonic spinet, there are soooo many Gulbranson, et. al. spinets that are 60+ years old now and have simply been around the block too many times to make much of a decent piano for a reasonable cost. I'll work on most any piano, but my bottom line is that if the owner will still have an old worn-out, poor-sounding, poor-playing piano after spending $500 or $1K on it, then yes, there are more cost effective alternatives.<div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div><img id="46819c78-d47f-4b09-a9c7-4ca93d2bf9f2" height="480" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:EDABC42F-6BF0-4755-9498-E51E10CE7195">           <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 288px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#b37749">- Man</font></span></div><div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 23, 2012, at 1:01 AM, Joseph Garrett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Terry the Farrell said: "If I were to do that scope of work, I'd easily<br>double that fee (mid-west prices). And most any spinet owner would be<br>ill-advised to put that much $$ into their little spinet."<br><br>Terry,<br>Please tell me what would you advise someone to do with that $500.00? Buy<br>another piano, of dubious ilk, that probably needs more work? Or...perhaps<br>use it as a down payment on a Chinese POS???!! Hmmm? which one? that is a<br>puzzlement. a piano made with particle board/select hardwood and bad<br>workmenship? Or...a slightly old piano, made with real solid core panels,<br>that Gramma paid hard earned cash for? Which would be of more value to the<br>client? Which would give good service?<br>I can say that I have replaced wippen flanges, damper levers, jacks and<br>flanges, hammer butt flanges and elbows on the same piano. I replaced with<br>WOOD! That was 30 years ago and it's still going strong. Musically? Well,<br>it ain't no "concert pianer" but it's the one that the client wants and<br>loves! I have many such, that I've done. Without regret on both sides of<br>the fence.<br>You call yourself a Woodworker. Well, which is better: Wood? Plastic? MDF<br>HDF LDF? Select Hardwood of dubious ilk, with the strength of balsa? And<br>then there are the poorly made actions. Don't even get me started on that.<br>If you've ever worked on the newer pianos, you'd know the answers to my<br>questions. The Spinet has been getting a bad rap for waaaayyy to damned<br>long and I'm sick of hearing it! It's what puts the spuds on the table of a<br>lot of beginning technicians. I include myself and I suspect you too, Terry.<br>Joe <br><br><br>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<br>Captain of the Tool Police<br>Squares R I<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>