<HTML>In a message dated 4/17/02 7:58:05 AM Central Daylight Time, atodd@UH.EDU writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">List, Just curious. We "only" have 28 recitals/concerts scheduled from April 15 - April 21 and all but three will use a piano and all will get a complete tuning or perhaps a very thorough 'touch-up'. Yesterday, I had to tune both D's in our Opera House and in another hall, both D's & a harpsichord, all used last night! I was just wondering how this compares with your schedule during that time period. The next week is just as bad. Less than 2 weeks of classes left! After juries are over, I think I'm going to take a week off just to "unstress" some. Then the work starts to get ready for all the summer stuff. Unlike Wim's school, ours doesn't virtually shut down for the summer. :-) Avery University of Houston </XMP> </BLOCKQUOTE> Avery That is why I need feed back. I just wanted to get an idea if my formula would work. But even in your case, plug in the numbers, and put down how often a piano gets tuned. If it 75 per year, or 200 times per year, the result will be in how many hours a piano tech needs to work to get the work done. Obviously if your formula points to the fact that a tech needs to work 80 hours a week, you've got a very good excuse to go to the chair and ask for help. Wim </HTML>