You need to make at least as much per day as you normally would if you were in your home town tuning or servicing. Plus you need compensation for traveling time, mileage etc., each day, each way, as well as over time if any is needed, plus parts and possibly repairs and of course a separate charge for each tuning. I would lean towards charging my hourly "stand by rate" if I were doing nothing at all on top of my regular concert tuning rate. From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Remillard Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:40 PM To: Pianotech List Subject: [pianotech] on call tuning rates One of my larger pianos is going out for a 10 day rental for a world famous musician. I have been asked to be on call for the entire time to take care of the piano. The venue manager suggested that I suggest that I just plan on tuning the piano in the morning prior to rehearsals beginning. I have never dealt with such a request and don't relish the idea of being on this person's beck and call for 10 whole days. Yet, if this is what they want I should charge accordingly. What kind of multiple of your going rate would you charge to be on call for 10 days? The venue is between 35 and 60 minutes away depending on traffic. The artist is currently known as Prince. -- Andrew Remillard ANRPiano.com 2211 Curtiss St. Downers Grove, IL 60515 630-852-5058 _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090505-0, 05/05/2009 Tested on: 5/5/2009 7:49:10 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090505/4ceb8baf/attachment.html>
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