Rookie status (was age) [was PTG logo]

[Clyde Hollinger]

Friends,
I've tuned pianos part-time for twelve years and fulltime for eight, and in
some things I *still* feel like a rookie.  I keep learning new things, but
I'm very hesitant to perform services I've never done on a client's piano.  I
still hope to get a couple El Cheapos of my own to learn on, one of these
days (or months or years or decades).

Regards,
Clyde Hollinger

Newton Hunt wrote:

> 5000 would take about five years, or ten, depending.  What really
> counts is learning and observation.  If one did 2 a day 10 per week
> for 50 weeks there would be 500 pianos and at $70 per tuning that
> is about $35,000.  _I_ didn't do that well my first year out of
> school.  Well, maybe I did because I worked for a dealer who had
> about 500 pianos out on rental, floor tunings, customer tuning, for
> a year before I began teaching.
>
> David Ilvedson wrote:
> >
> > No way, 5000.
> >
> >
> > > how many pianos does one have to service before he/she
> > > can finally shed the rookie status?
> >
> > Oh, about 1,000 it seems.
> >
> >                 Newton (still searching for the perfect tuning)