<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 5, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Alan McCoy wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I use the time between tunings as a "mental health break" to walk up to my</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">office and enter the data into the database. I've never been a 5-6 piano a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">day tuner.<BR></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here either. I'd be too exhausted to do the after work tunings for the real paying customers.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> Never will be either. If I'm jammed, I write it down on a piece</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">of paper. I'm not often that pressed for time here. It's not a conservatory.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Neither are we, but a lot of our younger faculty are coming from conservatories and have higher expectations than those who they are replacing did. What I meant about more than one can do refers more to a 1:125 tech to piano ratio. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Since no money has been available for rebuilding and parts replacement until lately, the condition of the pianos has really fallen, and one guy just can't make a difference with this load.</DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>