Customer doing the work. was The Bad News.

[Richard Brekne]

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Wimblees@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 3/18/01 6:45:54 PM Central Standard Time,
> crbrpt@bellatlantic.net writes:
>
>
>
>> My most loyal customers are those who have tried to tune
>> their own pianos.
>
>
> This is about how I feel. This whole discussion about pianist
> learning to
> tune their own piano should be looked on by professional piano
> tuners as a
> means to increase business, not take it away. I encourage
> people who call and
> ask for tuning hammers, tuning forks, advice on tuning the
> piano, etc. I get
> rewarded handsomely by the people with whom I spend a few
> minutes talking
> about how to tune a piano, or from whom I make a few dollars
> selling tuning
> instruments. Sooner or later they all realize there is much
> more to tuning a
> piano than turning the pin. And for the few who actually do
> learn to do it
> themselves, they become piano tuners, and join the ranks, and
> the PTG.
>

I would have to aggree with this Wim. I have no problem with
customers tuning / attempting to tune and for all the same
reasons listed by the many who have shared their views. You said
it perhaps better then most of the rest of us maybe.... short,
sweet, and right to the point.  I think most of you know where my
concerns lie regarding the use of ETD's so I wont restate them
here.

However when this kind of thing goes beyond working on a piano
the person owns, to calling themselves a professional and taking
professional embursment for services rendered... then I believe
we are into a completey different problem area.  One that I
personally believe represents a greater problem and a greater
wrong then those few amoung our ranks that abuse whatever titles
are presently available could possibly present.

>
> So why discourage these people? If Mr. Widener can make a few
> bucks selling
> his ETD, and if the professor feels good about writing his
> dissertation on
> the web, more power to them. Bring it on. We can use the extra
> work.

I misread Dons first intent when he started this whole thing as
well. He was actually more concerned about the use of the name
Accu Tune... which was / is very very close to the SATs name.
Grin... I wonder how many of us havent picked up yet that we are
not talking about the SAT at all.

>
>
> Willem

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no


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