On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:22 AM, <david at piano.plus.com> wrote: > What do you think about the ethics and the efficacy of doing piano tuning > and repair as a part-time business when a person has another source of > income? > > There is a view that if you are not tuning full-time you will not maintain > your skill at a high enough level. > > Best regards, > > David. > > > As Conrad said there are tuners and there are tooners. One of the operative questions might be what the other source of income is, perhaps an allied art? I recently refused the request of a customer who wanted to become a tooner "just for his own and the few church pianos". He had made it abundantly clear that he had no interest in making it a fulltime or even part-time endeavor but rather an infrequent action for just those few mentioned. After I had explained/convinced him that my reservations were other than a "fear of competition" which was what he surmised. I was able to convince him that he would be doing more harm than good. By "only" tuning the pianos he would not be well versed enough in the myriad other observations and knowledge necessary that should be made each time a piano is opened to be serviced, not just tuned. He would in fact be doing a disservice to himself, the church and any others he chose to tune for. Mike -- I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090330/7b6afe49/attachment.html>
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