More Money in Tuning or Servicing?

[Jon Page]

Precisly what I have done.

Works for me.

More money, less tuning;

Jon Page



At 09:12 PM 6/30/98 +500, you wrote:
>
>On 1998-06-30 John Page said:
>(in a message called Tool Update)
>
>   >Tunings can get to be a bore and being able to service the piano
>   >mechanically is where the money is. You can tune and then comment
>   >how the action would respond better if these certain adjustments
>   >were made.
>I am curious to know whether others on this list think there is more money
>in tuning or repair?  To be clearer, I am talking about the repair necessary
>to take the piano to your shop to do it?  Quite honestly, I would love it if
>I never had to do anything more than simple repairs and had somebody, like
>John, that didn't want to do tuning; we could trade work.  I am not very
>fast at the repairs, I do not have a shop, as such,
> and don't really want one, I would
>rather tune, do regulations, voicing, and simple repairs.  The most I ever
>want to bring home is an action.  I use to think that if I had a shop,
>I would only want to do major repairs to pianos that I owned, then sell
>them, but I gather from comments on this list in the past that there is no
>real money in that, either, if you consider your time as money.  Comments?
>
>Arnold Schmidt, Raleigh, NC
>Arnold1@Mindspring.com
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