$320 for a pitch raise sounds like he's going to have trouble finding clients in the near future to me. I charge maybe thirty dollars extra for a 100 cent pitch raise, tops. It's not like it's a fine tuning, and doesn't require anything more than a little more time. The only time that I really start to "sweat" while tuning, is on the last pass, and especially when trying to get those unisons as pure as I can get them. Of course, that's on all tunings anyway, pitch change or not. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clyde Hollinger" <cedel@supernet.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:45 AM Subject: Re: charge for pitch raise > Well, for most of us it's charging for the work done. But one time a tech told > me if he arrived to find the piano 50c flat he charges double his normal tuning > fee, and if it's 100c flat he charges double again. As an example, $80 to tune, > $160 to pitchraise 50c and tune, $320 to pitchraise 100c and tune. That sounds > like penalizing to me, or am I missing something here? > > I've been told from another source that one can never say charges are > inappropriate. That never made sense to me before, and it doesn't now. I do > concede, however, that one tech may charge considerably more than another for > doing exactly the same thing. That's what the free market is all about, and > it's even against the law to agree to all charge the same thing. > > Regards, Clyde > > Dave Nereson wrote: > > > > Please tell me that no techs around here "penalize" a piano owner for > > having > > > a piano that is off pitch - whether it was last tuned last week or in > > 1962. > > > Please tell me we simply charge for our labor and expertise.... < > > > > It's not "penalizing"; it's just charging for the extra time spent in doing > > a pitch raise. --Dave Nereson, > > RPT, Denver > >
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