Yeah, but my fear is that others will likewise suffer such indignities at "regular" prices, and I will lose customers. Maybe I could charge pitch raise rates. I guess I have to start asking piano makes when I call, then. What about the Korean pianos as well????????????????? OH, BTW- I only do that "start in the top" thing if it's quite old and scary. I've pulled a lot up from a long way without such labor.. les _____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Garrett Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 10:06 AM To: pianotech Subject: [pianotech] Re Tuning Time Les said: " use TuneLab, and guess at 3-cents I can learn to do it that quickly. At 10+I'll do it twice. Below about 20 I start in the last section, then go through the whole piano twice. That's 2-3 passes and two hours, except for those horrible Chinese pianos, and I've never seen one of those I can tune in less than 2.5 hours.." les, etal, Why don't you charge double for Chinese POSs like I do for Square Grands. If you have to be subjected to those attrocities, then you should be duly compensated, IMHO. (BTW, I refused to tune or work on any Chinese Pianos. They are far worse than the worst Overdamper piano!) Perhaps if we all did that, then perhaps people would stop buying those pieces of crap..labeled as "Entry Level Pianos" What the hell is that? Hopefully, some of the dealers and reps that lurk, will get the idea! Happy, (?), Monday JOE Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon) Captain, Tool Police Squares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091102/c2198585/attachment-0001.htm>
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