ratio?

[Wallace Scherer]

I did some door-to-door canvassing a few years ago when I was getting 
started and came up with these figures for our metropolitan area: (I 
tried to be conservative so as not to overestimate the potential business.)

Population - about 1,000,000
Households - about 200,000
Homes with pianos - about 20,000 (10% - from my actual findings)
Of those 20,000 pianos:
1/3 already had someone servicing them.
1/3 had no player, so the pianos just sat there unserviced.
1/3 were interested in getting it tuned or repaired soon.

Hope that helps you with estimating your business possibilities.

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Larry J. Messerly wrote:

> I have a 1997 statement from Terry Lewis, a vice president of Yamaha that
> estimates that there were at least 17 million used pianos in the US.  If
> the population is aproximately 220 million that is 7.7% of the
> population.
> Larry Messerly RPT
> Prescott/Phoenix
> 
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:02:26 EDT LTpianoman@AOL.COM writes:
> > Terry,
> > The number of pianos (averaged out) is about 9% of the given 
> > population. You 
> > can extrapolate from there for any given area, be it local or on a 
> > larger 
> > scale, if you know how many tuners are in that same area. Of course, 
> > I'm sure 
> > there are more pianos per capita in certain areas than others, but 
> > this 9% is 
> > just an average. 
> > (Or...maybe I read it wrong! Corrective posts welcomed)
> > 
> > Anyone know how many tuners in the US?
> > 
> > Larry Trischetta, Pocono NE Chapter,
> > Scranton, PA
>