This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Bob, I am a contract by-the-hour technician, so it keeps things simple. "The pianos were a little worse today, so they took more time than usual, so it will cost a little more today." Or: "The pianos were quite good today, so they took less time, so I was able to get around to more of them." As mentioned several weeks ago, I now use "by-the-hour" for in-home service. My tuning appointments are a 1.5 hour minimum charge. Over that time, I bill to the next .5 hour. Everyone seems to understands this, and both my clients and myself appreciate when I don't go into lengthy technical explanations Mark Cramer, Brandon University -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Caroline Hull Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:44 AM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: pitch raise At the university where I provide service for fee work, I have just started my round of tunings for the upcoming second semester. I am finding the pitch has dropped an unusual amount since the last tuning. For all but the recital hall pianos, the school asks me to tune once at the beginning of the first semester and again at the beginning of the second. The pitch on many of them so far has been close to -16 cents. (I think the real cold weather we had recently may be the culprit, with heating units running more and drying things out more.) Of course this requires at least two full passes and will need a follow up tuning (which may not be in the budget and therefore may not happen). I always do two passes anyway even for just a few cents pitch change but this seems more extreme. How do other service for fee techs handle the charges on pitch raise situations like this. For my private customers I charge an extra amount for pitch raises of this nature. Bob Hull, RPT Technician for Union University Jackson, TN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/64/e6/d9/73/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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