follow up on statistics

[Danny Moore]

Don Rose wrote:
>
> Hi Willem:
>
> At 09:26 AM 12/10/96 -0500, Willem wrote:
> >To Paul and the list
>  A full time piano tuner is capable of servicing
> >about 2000 per year.
>
> Do you know anyone who services 2000 pianos per year? Does anyone else know
> anyone? Help me with this!
>
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
> "Tuner for the Centre of the Arts"
> drose@dlcwest.com
> 3004 Grant Rd.
> REGINA, SK
> S4S 5G7
> 306-352-3620
Most assuredly I do.  The president of the Houston Chapter, Roy Escobar,
tunes an average of 6 a day, and has done so for the past 20 or so
years.  Roy is an RPT and a CTE.  I have been with him when he has done
a 1/2 step pitch raise in 53 minutes.  He went through the instrument 3
times, and it was a solid stable tuning when he left it.

Perhaps some of his skill is experience and some is natural ability.  I
can not match him in either speed or accuracy.  Roy is now 61 years old
and begin tuning while a teenager at the Austin State School for the
Blind.

Oh yes, I've seen Wim Blees do one almost that fast in a one-day seminar
he put on at a Houston chapter guild meeting, and I've seen Jim Geiger
do it many times while I was studying with him.

Personally, after 15 years in the business/finance world and a hospital
stay with heart trouble, I really don't care if I ever become that much
of a speedball.  I intend to enjoy the way I spend my day, and racing
the clock is not fun to me.  There are those who can - and do - give the
customer an honest, good tuning in less time than others of us.

Regards,
Danny Moore
Associate Member, PTG
Graduate, HCC School of Commercial Music