> Am *I* the only one who has difficulty scheduling this particular > appointment?? > > Regards, > > Alan Crane, RPT > Wichita State University > crane@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu Alan, I'm sure you'll get several answers assuring you that you are not the only piano technician with this dilemma. My wife and I have 3 pianos and an organ in our living room all of which need some form of service in addition to tuning. When my wife was teaching private piano lessons it was easier to justify tuning her studio piano. She does not teach privately now therefore it doesn't attention as often. It is understandable that we piano technicians spend our workday servicing pianos and that taking our evenings or weekends to service more pianos free is not a high priority - unless you're the player. Our pianos get tuned in a direct relationship to how often "I" play them. Of course if you are not the player, but you wife or child is, it is easier to put off the tuning. I've heard stories from several technicians that they arrived home one day to find a technician friend is tuning their piano. Maybe it would be a great chapter fellowship to spend one or two Saturdays a year tuning/servicing each others pianos! Yes? No? (Actually, my piano(s) definitely get at least a tuning the day I host a chapter meeting.) Maybe if I turned off this computer I'd find more time to play and therefore tune my pianos. Del Gittinger, RPT Registered Piano Technician of the Piano Technicians Guild delgit@acc-net.com Marion, Ohio
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