Burnout

[Jon Page]

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At 09:30 AM 12/05/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>on 12/5/00 8:14 AM, JIMRPT@AOL.COM at JIMRPT@AOL.COM wrote:
>
> > Brian wrote:
> >
> > <<"As for cranking out tunings...  I know it's the piano technician's 
> "bread
> > and butter".  But I've been thinking if that's what this business is all
> > about, I think it's time to find a new profession.  I grow to hate it more
> > each and every tuning.   <now where did that come from? that wasn't what we
> > were talking about!>
> > Brian Trout">>

Brian I didn't follow the beginning of this topic but your words in this 
paragraph ring true for me.

I grew very tired of tuning after 15+ years of full time appointments. It 
took a while to convert from
full time tuning to full time shop work. There is the occasional tuning 
now, but the majority of the
work is shop related. My client db has less than 75 tunings/year 
(endeavoring to attenuate).
This comes from a symbiotic relationship with other tuners, where I have 
sent them the tuning
and in turn they send me the technical aspects.

For all those years tuning I endeavored to maintain the "bread and butter" 
via tuning and the occasional
re-whatever was gravy. I wanted the restoration to be the "bread and 
butter". Now the tuning is the gravy.

It all depends on your market. Will your area support a source of 
reconditioned. rebuilt or re-whatevered
pianos?

Start out slow.  Pick a room, put a piano in there, fix it up, sell it; 
repeat. (keep that order in mind, otherwise
you'll have too many pianos waiting to be worked on!)  Once you get 
established as repair technician, it
will be difficult to keep them away. It worked here, YMMV.

A trailer is a low cost means to transport a piano, easier too because of 
the low loading height
(good friends are a valuable asset here but pay well, and better when 
established).

There's more than one way to 'skin' a piano . . .

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net
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