Confessions of a "Lookerson"

[Dean May]

>>My son is the youngest at 22.

 

Hi Dale,

 

When you posted about your son graduating North Bennett Street last year, I
forwarded it to one of my sons, Jared (age 18), along with a web link to the
school. He has been more consistent about helping me in my shop than any of
my other sons. Well, he got kind of excited about it and has been thinking
about it ever since. Last month he told me he wants to go, a big step. We
are going to try to make the spring visit in a couple of weeks. 

 

Blessings,

Dean

Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 

PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 

Terre Haute IN  47802

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:03 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: Confessions of a "Lookerson"

 

 David

   I'd love to see the sequel to the movie "A Day without a Mexican" any
body see that?  Mine would be called be called"A day without a piano tuner"
Then we'd know if we are missed or not.  I predict that unless new young
blood start getting into the business now that someday in many places it
will be impossible to get one tuned for lack of a warm body. In every area
I'm familiar with out here all the  guys are getting on in age. My son is
the youngest at 22, then another guy at 50 then me & so on. Folks don't'
understand that WE as a group are a getting to be a rare commodity.

  Encourage young blood to consider this so all us left over hippies (grin)
have someone to leave our knowledge & legacy to.

  Dale

n piano tuning we give at least an hour, all-in, of very concentrated
highly-skilled time,  and during that hour the skill is being fully
applied all the time.  But we can't in general charge rates comparable to
the stove or drain persons.

 For us it's almost always more than an hour & usually  2 hours because we
do other things to improve then piano

On the domestic front, if we all hiked our prices up to electrician or
plumber heights, people simply wouldn't get the piano tuned, and we
wouldn't get work, and homes would have out-of-tune pianos.

  O come on. Kindly Wake up & smell the coffee  Perhaps there
would be negligible difference to the economy.

But what of tunings for recitals and studio recordings?  If there were no
in-tune pianos, would the piano be almost instantly wiped out as a musical
instrument and replaced with electronic keyboards?  Would pianos simply no
longer be featured in recordings?  Would CD sales drop?

  The acoustic piano will always be here but it may only be the high end ,
so take aim now or perhaps become an electrician? I  make more than those
guys ....as do many on this list.



I don't know!


Best,

David.

 

 

Dale Erwin--Piano Restorations
4721 Parker rd
Modesto, Ca. 95357
Shop 209-577-8397
Web site http://www.Erwinspiano.com <http://www.erwinspiano.com/>  
Restoration & Sales of
Steinway & Sons & other fine pianos.
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