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

[Avery]

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 >my pastor got all over my case. <

Avery

At 07:37 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote:
>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: "Pia! notech 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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