One of our prosperous school systems in this area, Parkway, for a number of years sent out proposals to tune their pianos. It too stated that if your bid was accepted that you still wouldn't get all the schools in the district but that it did pin you down on a price for the school year and that they could use your bid to share with other districts. I used to go through all the trouble filling these out until I found out that tuners who didn't even compete were getting the school jobs also but didn't compete in price. So.. I stopped sending in the bids and do just as many of their schools as I did before . It seems here that the head music teacher in each school can use whoever they choose. There are some teachers who are loyal and some who worry so much about price that it is silly. I have been tuning for this school system since 1972 and they are just as flaky then as they are now. James Grebe R.P.T. of the P.T.G. from St. Louis, MO. USA, Earth pianoman@inlink.com "A wonderful thing happens when you start promoting--Opportunities for work.".
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