cost o' living

[pianolover 88]

Two "pianos" I will NEVER service: Birdcages and squares! Luckily I'm doing 
well enough to turn down, on rare occasions that I encounter them, archaic, 
antique, obsolete junk.

Terry Peterson



----Original Message Follows----
From: "James Grebe" <pianoman@accessus.net>
Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
To: <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>, "Pianotech" 
<pianotech@ptg.org>
Subject: Re: cost o' living
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 17:15:04 -0600

I had that happen once with a square grand.
James Grebe
Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair
Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups
(314) 608-4137
WWW.JamesGrebe.com
1526 Raspberry Lane
Arnold, MO 63010
BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE!
pianoman@accessus.net
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ilvedson" 
<ilvey@sbcglobal.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: cost o' living


>How about they bring the pianos to you?   ;-]
>
>David I.
>
>
>
>----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
>From: James Grebe <pianoman@accessus.net>
>To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Received: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:45:49 -0600
>Subject: Re: cost o' living
>
>>I added a  increase tuning price last spring to cover the higher
>>gasoline
>>cost.  It probably is a wash.  I am not making any more profit,
>>just putting
>>myself in a higher tax bracket.  Gasoline costs are going to do the
>>country
>>in unless we find another way of getting around with our tool
>>boxes.
>>Jim
>>James Grebe
>>Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair
>>Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups
>>(314) 608-4137
>>WWW.JamesGrebe.com
>>1526 Raspberry Lane
>>Arnold, MO 63010
>>BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE!
>>pianoman@accessus.net
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "J Patrick Draine"
>><draine@comcast.net>
>>To: <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>; "Pianotech" 
<pianotech@ptg.org>
>>Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 5:48 AM
>>Subject: cost o' living
>
>
>>>
>>>On Nov 13, 2004, at 2:00 AM, David Ilvedson wrote:
>>>
>>>>Terry,
>>>>
>>>>You don't want to think about the cost of living in 
California
>>>>right on
>>>>the coast in La La Land...
>>>>
>>>>David I.
>>>
>>>I know we've all absorbed the costs of the past year's gasoline
>>>price
>>>jump, but folks in the north are looking at a 37% increase in 
home
>>>heating
>>>oil (gas heat is up too but not that much). That had been a bit
>>>abstract
>>>(gloomy projections in the business section), but the
>>>temperature's been
>>>in the 20s most mornings this week, and there's five inches of
>>>snow on the
>>>ground today. The good news? With the heat going full blast, the
>>>pianos
>>>will be going out of tune fast. But will the heating budget eat 
up
>>>the
>>>"discretionary funds" used for luxuries like a 
properly tuned
>>>piano? It
>>>seems time for another price adjustment of my own.
>>>Life in the Northeast,
>>>Patrick Draine
>>>
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