Who needs piano technicians?

[Carol Beigel]

Where on the East Coast do your parent's live?  Steinway and Sons is so 
desperate for field techs in New York city, that they take people off the 
streets and train them.

Supposedly there are about 4,000 piano tuners (in the PTG)and figure for 
everyone of us there is at least one duffer and about 23,000,000 pianos in 
the country.  Not bad odds no matter how you figure it.

The best way to go about this is to visit your parents and see what is 
available around there.  No matter where you land, joining the PTG and doing 
work for a Piano Dealer will help get you started.  Universities and 
colleges are often looking for technicians, and that would be a good place 
to get more professional experience as well as benefits.  There are also 
piano factories in Pennsylvania and Georgia.

No matter where, no matter what, you just don't take a 10-month course in 
something and waltz onto Easy Street and be able to support a family.  You 
really need experience to develop yours skills, and the bottom line is that 
your ability to earn a living will depend on how skillfull you become. Most 
of the people I actually know on this list have spent their entire careers 
(at least 20 years or more) studying, researching and are constantly 
improving their skills.

Good luck!

Carol Beigel, RPT
Greenbelt, Maryland


>From: "David Weiss" <djweiss57@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Who needs piano technicians?
>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 05:59:57 -0500
>
>
>Hello.  I just joined the list and was hoping I could get some advice.
>
>I am currently in the piano technology program at the University of Western
>Ontario.  The program is ten months of tuning, repairing, regulating and
>rebuilding.  At the completion of the program I want to move somewhere on
>the East Coast of the US in order to be closer to my aging parents.
>
>I am searching for a good place to locate a piano technician business. I've
>been using the internet to find the population and number of technicians in
>a given area.  But I need one more statistic--is there any way to figure 
>out
>the "piano density" of an area?
>
>Furthermore, is this the best way to go about this search?  How have other
>people conducted such a search?  Has the journal done any articles on this
>subject?
>
>I would greatly appreciate advice or thoughts anyone has on the subject.  I
>should mention that I am 43 years old, married, with two children.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>David Weiss
>London, Ontario
>djweiss57@hotmail.com
>
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