On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 01:31 PM, Gregor W wrote: > Hi List, > > iīm a german piano-technician and perhaps my girlfriend and me are > going to live in Vietnam (Ho Chi Min City/Saigon) as she applied for a > good job there for next year. > > Is anybody out there from vietnam? Does anybody know the situation for > technicians in vietnam? Are there manufacturer? If i go there i will > think about setting up my own business, just tuning and maintenance > (only field service). In Saigon live 8 million people, i am sure there > are some pianos too. I tried to find information about shops or tuners > there, but i couldnīt find anything. Well I don't want to rain on your parade but -- be prepared for a steep drop in your wage, unless you line things up first. Twenty-five years ago I moved to Taiwan for five months. I was just out of tuning school, and my Mandarin quite rusty, *but* a couple of my friends were teaching music at a college and got me the "contract" for maintaining the music school's pianos. I was earning much less than in the US, but a fair bit more than the local technicians. Given the local economy it was quite adequate, and a good opportunity for me to tune Yamahas and Kawais. See if you can make some contacts with concert venues through German manufacturers (eg Steinway) -- concert service to European pianos might be a viable, well paying niche. Good luck, Patrick Draine
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