! Alan Barnard Salem, Missouri > [Original Message] > From: <A440A@aol.com> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Date: 06/20/2005 10:34:11 PM > Subject: Re: Tuning price > > Greetings, > I have a bunch of different tuning prices. I charge the school $80 per > tuning, even if I go in the hall three days in a row and spend less time on the > two following days. Same price for the practice rooms and teachers studios. > I have no benefit package with the school, it is all on oral contract. > I charge the recording studios $109.25. Or more, depending on what > happens. Had one last week that needed to be dropped 12 cents and tuned to the nth > degree for a master recording session. I had 80 minutes before the > drum-sounds began. I charged $125 for that. I don't pursue this kind of account > because of the time-pressure ratio ain't mellow enough for me, nowadays. But, they > do pop up at times. > My regular, customers-in-their-homes I charge $125 to tune, and they know > other stuff like pedal lube or minor regulation tweaks will increase that. > This includes all the piano faculty and teachers I tune for at home. First > time customers are told, early on, that the first visit is a little higher, > usually $150. > Tunings go up to around $150 when I am out of town to tune, but it is > more likely that those tunings are going to accompany a fair amount of other work > so an hourly price of $100 is more likely to just cover the tuning time along > with all the rest of the work. > > Regards, > Ed Foote RPT > http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html > www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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