Public School Systems

[Leslie W Bartlett]

Well, Avery, my suspicion is that these pianos probably have not been
well maintained, so $40 would be a losing proposition.  I'd say a minimum
of $50 the first time, and require that two tunings a year be done, plus
costs for any repairs- and I'd guess there would be lots of
that................

As you said, they should have a full-time technician!
les

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:57:20 -0500 Avery Todd <avery@ev1.net> writes:
>List,
>
>    I was asked today about a school system in the Houston area that 
>wanted
>to start a program to have their pianos tuned and "repaired", i.e. 
>whatever was
>needed. They're not looking necessarily for "cheap". They just want to 
>know
>what would be reasonable.
>    They have app. 250 pianos and they wanted to know if $12,000.00 a 
>year was
>unreasonable. Of course, for that many pianos you can imagine what I 
>said. 
>:-) Two
>tunings a year would be almost double that figure!
>    But what "would" be reasonable, both for them and for the tuner? 
>As far 
>as I'm
>concerned, $40.00 per piano, twice a year, would be rock bottom. Plus 
>extra
>tunings for Christmas concerts and end of year concerts. Plus the cost 
>of
>repairs/rebuilding work. But what would be a reasonable way for them 
>to budget
>the cost of this type of thing? To decide how "much" money to budget?
>    Any help/suggestions that I can pass on to them would be greatly 
>appreciated.
>I've tuned for school systems before, but never one of this 
>magnitutude.
>    Thanks for any help you can give.
>
>Avery
>
>Avery Todd, RPT
>University of Houston
>Houston, TX 

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