This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Yeah, I thinking aiming for the high end is a good goal...my= business has evolved in to mostly field work. Lots of private= and commercial clients. I do not have a problem with low end= pianos as they pay the mortgage. I don't rebuild= anymore...never really got good at it, i.e. did it all the time.= The last few years have been the best yet. As my financial= advisor/tax guy said..."if you were in the corporate world after= 25 years, you'd have the benefits but look at your lifestyle." = We do have a pretty good working environment. A topic I'd like= to discuss is planning for the future. How do some of you= invest, save etc. for retirement. I have a home which is worth= much more than my mortgage and I have a real estate trust= investment and some IRA funds...I look at corporate America and= State and Federal employees and their benefits, ie. retirement,= health for life etc. and it kind of annoys me... David I. ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: <Erwinspiano@aol.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:52:27 EST Subject: Re: Year End All I think ever ones business will vary from location to location.= Biz will also vary depending on whether you do in home service= or just rebuilding. I like the comments about diversification.We= experienced a few downs the biggest one being most of 2003 but= we still got by. The time before was about 3 months in 1998 when= I had to lay off a main worker. Overall this has been a great= year for rebuilding & not bad for the service end. I don't do= much outside work but my brother handles much of that & he did= well. At this time of year we are grateful for the care & concern of= friends & family & a faithful creator As Willis Snyder always says aim for the high end. Prosperous new year in all ways & not just monetary Dale Erwin There is good news and there is bad news from this end. I am Down= from last year on appointments by 25% but only down by 7.5%= financially, which means that profitability is actually UP. The one challenge we are going to have to address is the= onslaught of the digital piano. Traditional piano dealers are= selling more of these now than the real thing. I always try and= put my customers off buying them by saying that they lose their= value very quickly, just like computers because they become= outdated (obsolete) within a few years. I also tell them that= they will soon become tired of the sound of a digital piano (at= least I do) "listener fatigue" and all that. I can only play a= digital piano for about half an hour and have to switch it off.= Have any of you ever analysed the tuning on a digital piano: it's= terrible. The temperament is not very smooth at all and even the= unisons aren't all that great. However I do suspect that if they= were tuned the way we tuners would like them to be tuned, they= probably wouldn't sound like pianos at all! Any other ammunition with which to bombard the onslaught is= welcome. Looking forward to another year. Burp ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/67/08/bb/50/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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