[pianotech] Chinese tuners (was The World's Greatest MusicalProdigies)

[Kerry]

I never got to see how they worked, although I tried to set up a meeting
with a couple. No one seemed surprised that I used a tuning fork
though...;-)

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From: Duaine & Laura Hechler [mailto:dahechler at att.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:03 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Chinese tuners (was The World's Greatest
MusicalProdigies)

Kerry wrote:
> I was in China a couple of years ago to brush up on my once-fluent
Mandarin.
> A friend at Xiamen University arranged for me to tune a number of pianos
> while I was there (what a great opportunity for language study!) and from
> what I saw and heard the skill level is pretty low. Everybody seemed to
have
> at least one horror story about service. Most if not all of the techs are
> connected with a store or piano company, not many independents, and the
> concept of customer service is apparently not well developed yet. That's
> just what I saw in one area, maybe not representative of the country as a
> whole.
>
>
> Kerry Kean
> www.ohiopianotuner.com
You MUST be talking about AURAL tuners