Different Cultures/Foreign Techs.++

[pianoman]

Barrie,
How much is a pound compared to a dollar?
James Grebe
R.P.T. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"Take me through the darkness to the break of the day"

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> From: Barrie Heaton <Piano@forte.airtime.co.uk>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Different Cultures/Foreign Techs.+
> Date: Monday, October 20, 1997 2:32 PM
> 
> Hi James, 
> 
> Sounds worse than it probably is, a lot of tuners in the U.K. don't
> retire they just die, and it has been known for one or two of them to
> die on the job.  I cover roughly a 25 mile radius which incorporates a
> lot of small towns and some rather large ones, I am geographically well
> placed in between two of the largest towns in England.  
> 
> Out of the piano tuners that I have mentioned,  most of them appear in
> the four Yellow pages which covers my area, it used to be one.  Out of
> the 23 plus tuners only six of us, belong to a professional
> organisation. 2 ABPT 4 PTA and 3  have duel membership in the IMIT.
> 
> in our country, professional organisation set a minimum fee,  members
> tend to keep to the minimum fee.  The fee for my area is £22.00 but I
> charge £28.00 for regular customers.  A mere pittance, to the prices
> some on the list have been quoting for their work.  Even tuners in the
> more affluent areas of South of England can only get away with £40.00
> per tuning.
> 
> Take care, 
> 
> Barrie.
> 
> In article <199710191150.GAA02599@thor.inlink.com>, pianoman
> <pianoman@inlink.com> writes
> >Dear Barrie,
> >You really have some fierce competition statistics.  In order for you
all
> >to survive someone is doing their homework and their must be a lot
higher
> >proportion to people and pianos than over here.  Good for you.
> >James Grebe
> >R.P.T. from St. Louis
> >pianoman@inlink.com
> >"Take me through the darkness to the break of the day"
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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