Your right, they did give you a hell of deal in getting that concert experience...I think you did the right thing...just keep in mind cost of living etc. and do raise your rates a little every year, especially since you are becoming an experience concert technician...;-] David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: 1/2/2006 12:54:42 AM Subject: RE: New Year's rant; my 2 cents >At 10:43 PM 1/1/2006 -0800, David wrote: >>It may be that you have no competition...no one else qualified to do the >>work...in which case, as I said before, the concert hall is getting a hell >>of deal... >I am their best bet. I often fit other tunings and/or service calls in >while I'm over at the coast. What you don't understand is that while they >are getting a hell of a deal, they also gave me a hell of a deal when I >first arrived, with no concert experience. They gave me a completely free >hand with their Baldwin SD-10, and over a few years I turned it, as one >visiting artist told a pre-concert audience, "from a bucking bronco into >something beautiful." That piano and I taught each other concert work. And >of course I got a lot of other work on the coast through my connections >with the Newport Arts Center. They now have a brand new Steinway D. How >many chances do you think I have to watch one come to life, and to look >after it during the process? Are you so overwhelmed with good new concert >instruments that you can be coy about such chances? >You have to understand Newport. It's a town of 8700 people. The town built >the Arts Center a year or two before I moved to Oregon. It's busy ALL the >time! Often three or four things are going on there at once. Newport is >more than just a gig and a few bucks for me. One part of being in a >smaller, less hectic, lower cost, and more remote area is that one helps >places like this keep going. We thrive together. >Let's just say -- it works for me. >Geoff is right -- chill, chill >Sssssssssssssnnnn (hissing lightly ...) >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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