What's a fair price to charge for tuning a piano

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Hi Avery,
What are you curious about?
Marshall

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From: Avery <avery1@houston.rr.com> 

> At 02:22 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote: 
> >I tune hard listen soft, but at times I'll find myself tuning soft 
> >in a noisy room nursing home, then I'll snap out of it and get to 
> >work and forget what others think. I walked over to our piano on 
> >Sunday after church and played the three pivital tones/thirds a few 
> >times back and forth to check the tuning and my pastor got all over my case. 
> 
> Just curious but why? 
> 
> >I keep telling him that the piano is a little out of tune, not much 
> >but enough to be bothersome. some unisons are out etc. The guy that 
> >regularly tunes it uses an ETD Sanderson I believe. He starts on one 
> >end goes up and then does unisons. 
> 
> That tells me he's not an aural tuner. No one that is would tune a 
> piano that way. Except for a pitch raise! 
> 
> Avery 
> 
> >Marshall 
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery" 
> >To: "Pianotech List" 
> >Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:06 PM 
> >Subject: Re: What's a fair price to charge for tuning a piano 
> > 
> > 
> >>Because he tuned very softly (used to working in a store and not 
> >>bothering the customers/salesmen! 
> >>Couldn't hold up to university piano students for 15+ hrs. a day! 
> >> 
> >>Avery 
> >> 
> >>At 01:45 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote: 
> >>>Why didn't his tunings hold? 
> >>>Marshall 
> >>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery" 
> >>>To: "Pianotech List" 
> >>>Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:23 PM 
> >>>Subject: Re: What's a fair price to charge for tuning a piano 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>>At 01:15 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote: 
> >>>>>At 01:01 PM 2/9/2006 -0600, you wrote: 
> >>>>>>Conrad, 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>Unfortunately, there's a store here in Houston that will only 
> >>>>>>pay $15.00 for a store tuning. And damn it, there are tuners 
> >>>>>>here who will do it for that! :-( 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>Avery 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>I got $12.50, but that was in '79. I could fill my gas tank for 
> >>>>>$5 then. Those tooners all on foot? Sleep under bridges? 
> >>>>>Shopping carts for tool kits? 
> >>>>Actually, no. But two of them that I know of are blind. IMO, I 
> >>>>think they're afraid to say no to that price for fear of losing 
> >>>>the work. One of them used to tune our "lease" pianos but the 
> >>>>tuning wouldn't last 'till he got out the door! Now I'm doing 
> >>>>them for that price because I got tired of having to redo them 
> >>>>anyway. For free! At least I don't have to go anywhere. He 
> >>>>actually had a driver he had to pay! 
> >>>>Avery 
> >>>> 
> >>>>>Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician 
> >>>>>Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 
> >>>>>1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>- Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score, 
> >>>>>- Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap. 
> >>>>> 
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