surcharge

[Richard Brekne]

Roy... averaging tunings a day isnt really a valid way to look at it. Somedays
you do several... some days you do none..

How many pianos do you tune a year ??? and how much do you get for all that
effort. 100 after basic expenses in NOT unreasonable by any means. Those who
think it is will remain on the poor side (economically) of the technical
community.  It is not an hour per day at the office scenario and you know it.

God... WHAT IS IT with piano techs... this seeming love of poverty... jesshh..

Roy Ulrich wrote:

> Yes, and to pocket 100 bucks a piece after expenses, you'd be very lucky to
> average 1 1/4 a day! Not bad for an hour per day at the office tho...Boy,
> could I improve my golf game or what.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kam544@flash.net <kam544@flash.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 7:00 PM
> Subject: Re: surcharge
>
> >>Richard,
> >>
> >>    Not too many tuners "I" know charge $100 per tuning. :-)
> >>
> >>Avery
> >
> >And he added, that $40 thou' was:
> >
> >>>"...after travel expences and the like...
> >>>Richard Brekne..
> >
> >Considering there are approximately 260 business days in a year, not
> >counting holidays or vacation, 400 tunings equates to about 1 & 1/4 tuning
> >each of those business days.
> >
> >I could go for that   :-)
> >
> >Keith McGavern
> >Registered Piano Technician
> >Oklahoma Chapter 731
> >Piano Technicians Guild
> >USA
> >
> >

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Richard Brekne
Associate PTG, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway