Piano Guidance
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How much do piano hammers cost?

Hammers (set): $860.00-$1,110.00. Knuckles (set): $430.00.

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This a list of services most commonly performed in the maintenance of the grand piano. TUNING (includes pedal adjustment and minor action adjustments necessary to tune the piano): $150.00 This does not include a pitch raise if the piano has not been tuned in many years and has dropped pitch significantly.

PITCH RAISE:

minor – $35.00

major – $75.00

CLEANING SERVICES:

Apply center pin cleaner action centers: $20.00

Clean balance and guide pins (shop): $26.25

Clean keys: $6.25

Clean soundboard and plate: $25.00

Remove keys, vacuum key frame (shop):$17.50

Vacuum action, keys, and key bed: $7.50

REPAIR/REPLACEMENT SERVICES:

Hammer shank repair: $12.50

Re-glue ivory head/tail (shop): $50.00

Re-glue sharp (shop): $50.00

Re-pin action center: $7.50

Replace all backcheck leather (shop): $225.00

Replace damper felt: $14.75

Replace drop screw: $7.65

Replace felt punching keyframe and action: $5.00

Replace hammer: $15.00

Replace hammer f & s: $15.75

Replace hammer f & s Steinway: $21.25

Replace hammer shank: $14.75

Replace jack: $11.50

Replace keybutton: $22.00

Replace key end felt: $3.75

Replace spring loop: $11.25

Replace wippen: $18.00

Replace wippen flange: $12.50

Replace wippen Steinway: $28.00

Extract broken agraffe & replace: $35.00

Replace bass string universal (temporary): $50.00

Replace bass string original (permanent): Estimate

Replace treble string (single) $45.00

Replace treble string (double) $90.00

Replace tuning pin: $15.00

Splice bass string (if possible): $22.50

Splice treble string (if possible): $15.00

ACTION REGULATION (by function):

Action guides & bed keyframe to key bed: $25.00

Align, Burn, Travel Hammers: $25.00

Check: $25.00

Damper lift: $37.50

Drop: $25.00

Ease key centers: $25.00

File Hammer Grooves/Shape Hammers (shop): $150.00

Hammer Blow/hammer line: $37.50

Jack height & alignment: $37.50

Let off: $25.00

Level/Square Keys and Set Key Dip: $75.00

Mate hammers to strings: $37.50

Pedals (sustain, sostenuto, una corda): $25.00

Polish capstans (shop): $17.50

Repetition springs tension: $37.50

Replace all balance, guide rail, and key rest felt (if needed shop): $75.00

Seat Strings: $12.50

Tighten action screws: $18.50

Tighten backaction screws: $11.25

Wiippen alignment: $25.00

KEYS:

Acrylic ivory/key top repair (shop): Estimate

New key bushings: $360.00

New balance and guide rail pins: $310.00

Set of new key tops: $650.00

IN-HOME ACTION REGULATION: $500.00

STRINGING SET WOUND STRINGS (IN-HOME): $700.00

STRINGING WHOLE PIANO (SHOP): $1,600.00

PLATE LETTERING: Estimate

TRANSPORTATION: Estimate

ACTION PARTS REPLACEMENT SERVICES:

Backchecks (set): $445.00

Backcheck leather (set): $310.00

Damper backaction kit: Estimate

Damper felt (set): $580.00

Damper heads (set): Estimate

Hammers (set): $860.00-$1,110.00

Knuckles (set): $430.00

Let-off rail/dowel felt (set): $190.00

Prehung hammers (set): $1,305.00-$1,905.00

Shank and Flange (set): $365.00-$424.00

Wippens (set): $1,530.00-$1,680.00

WIPPEN RESTORATION: heel felt; jack stop felt; repetition lever felt; clean/polish repetition springs; graphite repetition levers and jacks: $900.00

JACK AND REPETITION LEVER SPRING LOOP REPLACEMENT (SET): $290.00

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Are goosebumps good for you?

While these goosebumps, or piloerections, have no beneficial function in humans, scientists say furry animals have practical reasons for getting goosebumps. In animals, hair standing on end creates insulation against the cold. Goosebumps also appear during a fight-or-flight situation.

Q: Why do you get goosebumps?

A: When you’re cold, or you experience a strong emotion, such as fear, shock, anxiety, sexual arousal or even inspiration, goosebumps can suddenly pop up all over the skin. They occur when the tiny muscle located at the base of each hair follicle contracts, causing the hair to stand on end. Advertising Policy Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission. We do not endorse non-Cleveland Clinic products or services. Policy

But what really causes this involuntary body response and does it serve a purpose?

While these goosebumps, or piloerections, have no beneficial function in humans, scientists say furry animals have practical reasons for getting goosebumps. In animals, hair standing on end creates insulation against the cold. Goosebumps also appear during a fight-or-flight situation. When an animal finds itself in danger, the raised fur coat creates a visual of a bigger animal and may scare off predators. Humans don’t have enough body hair for goosebumps to have any insulating effect, and goosebumps won’t scare off any would-be predators either. They are an involuntary response to hormone surges caused by changes in temperature or emotion.

— Family medicine physician Donald Ford, MD

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