Don Rose wrote: > > Hi Willem: > > At 09:26 AM 12/10/96 -0500, Willem wrote: > >To Paul and the list > A full time piano tuner is capable of servicing > >about 2000 per year. > > Do you know anyone who services 2000 pianos per year? Does anyone else know > anyone? Help me with this! > > Regards, > Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. > "Tuner for the Centre of the Arts" > drose@dlcwest.com > 3004 Grant Rd. > REGINA, SK > S4S 5G7 > 306-352-3620 Most assuredly I do. The president of the Houston Chapter, Roy Escobar, tunes an average of 6 a day, and has done so for the past 20 or so years. Roy is an RPT and a CTE. I have been with him when he has done a 1/2 step pitch raise in 53 minutes. He went through the instrument 3 times, and it was a solid stable tuning when he left it. Perhaps some of his skill is experience and some is natural ability. I can not match him in either speed or accuracy. Roy is now 61 years old and begin tuning while a teenager at the Austin State School for the Blind. Oh yes, I've seen Wim Blees do one almost that fast in a one-day seminar he put on at a Houston chapter guild meeting, and I've seen Jim Geiger do it many times while I was studying with him. Personally, after 15 years in the business/finance world and a hospital stay with heart trouble, I really don't care if I ever become that much of a speedball. I intend to enjoy the way I spend my day, and racing the clock is not fun to me. There are those who can - and do - give the customer an honest, good tuning in less time than others of us. Regards, Danny Moore Associate Member, PTG Graduate, HCC School of Commercial Music
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