When I began, the local BIG store employed a sightless tuner full time as a stock tuner. Sadly, stores do not do that anymore though it seems to me that it would be a great business thing to do. The tuner was a wonderful tuner, great employee, and easy to get along with. Sorry, those days are gone. Jim James Grebe Piano Tuning & Repair Member of M.P.T. R.P.T. of the P.T.G. for over 30 years. "Member of the Year" in 1989 Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups, Piano Benches, Writing Instruments (314) 845-8282 1526 Raspberry Lane Arnold, MO 63010 BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE! pianoman@accessus.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "pianotune05" <pianotune05@comcast.net> To: "An open list for piano technicians" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 10:27 PM Subject: Re: AAA Yellow Pages trade listing-Geoff > Hi Susah, > My problem with finding a place that has few techs is, does tha tplace > have a bus system. We visionimpaired folks don't always drive. Fo me, a > place that has numerous music stores to do floor tunigs for where I can > gain customers from would be best. A small town would't help me any , > just to frustrate and anoy me. :) I"m a big city guy to begin with. My > stomping grounds , Philadelphia PA continues to sound better and better > each day, but I cannot afford the cost of living ther, almost like > California. Although being close to my family would be a benifit for my 5 > month old. > Marshall > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:20 PM > Subject: RE: AAA Yellow Pages trade listing-Geoff > > >> >>> >>>I did some market research by calling about a dozen of them getting price >>>quotes in order to establish a reasonable fee for my services. Attitudes >>>ranged from surly to desperate. >> >> I did that too, when figuring out where I wanted to live. It was a real >> eye-opener! Medford-Ashland was the craziest. The yellow pages there had >> a tremendous long list of tuners, and one prominently advertised >> "Same Day Service" !! >> >> I shuddered, and drove north ... >> >> Tremendous amounts of grief and effort could be avoided if people >> were better at positioning themselves in places where there was a felt >> need, instead of in a crowd of piano techs struggling for market share. >> >> sssn >> >> P.S. Scouting areas, I felt like a fake as I asked about getting a piano >> tuned. People carefully explained pitch raising to me, etc. However, it >> was in everybody's interest that I find an uncrowded place which >> still had piano owners, so I went ahead, and pretended to be a >> prospective >> customer all up and down a lot of California and Oregon's I-5 corridor. >> _______________________________________________ >> Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > _______________________________________________ > Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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