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<DIV>Hi, Elwood,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Use the PTG pamplets. They are the BEST guides you can put into =
your
customer's hands.</DIV>
<DIV>I also have written a "little" guide that I hand to each and =
every
piano customer of mine explaining the design,</DIV>
<DIV>make up, stress, etc., etc., that happens and is going on
CONSTANLY in their piano. Once they</DIV>
<DIV>understand WHAT is happening with their piano, in and around the
enviroment, they come to reason.</DIV>
<DIV>I tell them, " My tuning your piano twice a year is like
an insurance policy. You take care of your piano,</DIV>
<DIV>which IS an instrument, NOT a piece of furniture, and it =
will
take care of you." It's the "nature" of the design.</DIV>
<DIV>NO way around it. ( well, buy a keyboard, but=
I DON'T tell them that. I like my "job security") =
With
the</DIV>
<DIV>"Up Beat" Christian (song) movement now days in churches, =
they
find out more about "KEYBOARDS"</DIV>
<DIV>own their own than what best for "their own
good." Well, enough said.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Use the PTG Pamphlets.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Get the pamplets from the PTG Stores. Goto the web-site.&=
nbsp;
You know it. <A href="http://www.ptg.org">www.ptg.org</A> &=
nbsp;
</DIV>
<DIV>They are WORTH the money spent to give to your customers to=
encourage re-tunings. I like to give them</DIV>
<DIV>a "visual" and I tell them, " You can afford to have your piano =
tuned
at least once a year, every year, IF you</DIV>
<DIV>put two (2) dollars a week in a Jar, every week for 52
weeks." They'll figure that out, and say, " =
You
charge</DIV>
<DIV>$104.00 dollars to tune a piano ?? Gee, that a lot !! " &=
nbsp; I
say, " no, I don't, but you'll have a little extra for repairs</DIV>
<DIV>if something breaks, or you have an accident with the piano, and break=
it
yourself." " Oh, yeah, you'=
re
right ..."</DIV>
<DIV>Double that, and you can have it tuned twice a year, which is =
what
you as a piano owner -- SHOULD do.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I hope it helps, Elwood. " <STRONG><U>Give 'em
Heaven</U></STRONG> !! " ( that's what I started saying
instead of ' give 'em H__L.' Nobody</DIV>
<DIV>needs that. I don't. ) Ha !! just being=
funny. Remember ?? " Give 'em H__L,
Harry." ( from the Truman days.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Best to ya's,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Danny Tassin, RPT</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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<DIV>On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:28:14 -0600 "Elwood Doss" <<A
href="mailto:edoss@utm.edu">edoss@utm.edu</A>> writes:</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Good question!=
I service a number of churches and try to get them to tune on a regular
basis. I’d be interested in some type of guideline for
churches...something I could show the senior pastor or music minister/=
organ
master/choir director. At one church the lay person who arranged =
for me
to come by and tune their pianos had passed along the message to have the=
air
conditioning set at the temperature it is set when they worship. =
While I
was tuning, the lady minister walked in the sanctuary and asked me if I =
was
comfortable. It took me a minute or so to understand what she was
talking about and I finally commented that the temperature needed to be =
set
for the tuning, not for my comfort. She exclaimed that she thought =
I
just wanted to be comfortable when I tuned. I assured her that it =
was a
bit cool for me, but just right for the piano!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></=
P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I tuned a =
piano in a
small rural church a couple of weeks before Christmas several years ago.&=
nbsp;
They turn their heating way down during the week and turn it back up for =
their
service only on Sunday morning. I received a call from the mother =
of the
pianist in January that the piano was out of tune. She said her son=
said
it sounded terrible the previous Sunday. I arranged to meet with =
him
later in the week and when I walked in, the temperature was cool, but
comfortable—about what it was when I tuned the piano—and the =
piano sounded
great! I thought either my hearing is going or that piano sounds =
just
fine. About halfway down the aisle the pianist heard me and =
exclaimed
that the piano sounded great! He said it sounded terrible Sunday.&=
nbsp;
I asked him what the temperature in the sanctuary was like on the =
previous
Sunday and he said it was about like it was then, but when the “old=
folks”
came in they turned the thermostat way up! Problem solved! It=
’s
amazing what a small increase/decrease in the temperature and resulting
humidity makes as far as a piano being in tune.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT><=
/P>
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Jr.,
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Department of=
Music</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=navy><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">145 Fine Arts=
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
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Tahoma">
caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Cy Shuster<BR><B><=
SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:=
17
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> CAUT<BR><B><=
SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [CAUT] Overlap of CAUT =
with
churches?</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">It seems that the mission of CAUT overlaps
substantially with the requirements of churches: maintaining pianos in an=
institutional setting (rather than individually owned) -- although I =
doubt
many churches have a full-time tech.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Churches have been a big part of my business.&=
nbsp;
They have performance and rehearsal pianos, and have unusual =
environmental
problems, going through seasonal heating/cooling cycles twice a week or =
more
rather than twice a year.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Are there specific guidelines for
churches?</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">--Cy Shuster--<BR><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:=
City
w:st="on">Boston</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">MA</st1:State></st1:place></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A
href="http://www.shusterpiano.com">www.shusterpiano.com</A><BR><st1:=
place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">North</st1:PlaceName> <st1:=
PlaceName
w:st="on">Bennet</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Street</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><BR>Class of
'06</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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