Terry, I don't think you should give a discount for the worst ones, but charging a premium doesn't seem right to me, either. Shouldn't you charge for the work you actually do? Why not keep your tuning price the same for all pianos, then add extra only when you do extra work? To be sure, you should be compensated for all the work you do. I suggest looking at it from the client's point of view. Anyone should be able to understand paying an extra separate charge for additional needed repairs, but if you tuned for two neighbors and charged the one $10 more simply because they had an old upright, your ethics could be in question. Along that line, I had a client one time whose spinet player piano always took me substantially longer to tune. I informed them the next tuning would cost 25% more, and told them why. We parted amicably, and I've never been back, and I'm happy about that. Regards, Clyde Farrell wrote: > I charge $10 more > for old uprights because I figure I will spend at least 10 minutes gluing a > few hammers back on or the like. If I charged $1 per key, I would be > charging less than for the old beater than for a newer piano - I would be > giving a discount for the worst ones! NO WAY! ;-)
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