Christmas

[Farrell]

>From what I understand of the situation from the original post, I agree completely with you Win.

And, FWIW, $95 (standard tuning fee) + $45 (pitch raise fee) + 2 hours travel fee ($120) + 100% surcharge for not-normal-working-day (okay, let's reduce the travel fee to 50% because we ride a motorcycle and just love the #$%^ out of it - well, that equals: $340.

Did you charge less? (I mean, this wasn't your sister or anything - right?)

Terry Farrell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Willem Blees 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 8:30 PM
  Subject: Re: Christmas


  Robin

  It was very nice of you to comp the pitch raise part of the tuning for the wedding. But unless you knew the family, and were invited to the party, and that was part of your wedding gift, in my opinion, you sent the wrong message to them, especially since they are a musical family. I'm sure the caterers, and everyone else who "worked" that wedding didn't do anything special or extra out of the goodness of their heart. I hope you at least charged them double for tuning the piano in the first place.  

  Mele Kalikimaka everyone. 


  Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
  Piano Tuner/Technician
  Honolulu, HI
  Author of 
  The Business of Piano Tuning
  available from Potter Press
  www.pianotuning.com


  -----Original Message-----

  About ten years ago, I got a panicky call from a client living an hour's drive away.... their daughter was getting married at home on Christmas Day!!! And, no one had thought of having the piano tuned. The poor old thing was about 60 cents flat and not a very good instrument at its best. What was most surprising was that this was a professional musical family, with a recording studio in their basement and quite a reputation in the area for doing good work. I gifted the pitch raise part as a Christmas/Wedding gift and felt good that I had helped make their special day a bit nicer. 

  Robin Blankenship
  Matoaca, VA
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