> > Two years ago after tuning a middle school's pianos I wrote to the powers > that be saying the pianos needed $600 worth of extra work. I was surprised > that a year ago I actually got a purchase order for the work! Hi Clyde, It's happened to me a couple of times this year. A few lucky pianos in two different colleges got some work they had needed for many many years. One of the colleges called me early this summer. They had miraculously found themselves with $1700 (I can't imagine how) that they needed to find a way to spend before the end of their fiscal year in two weeks. Good trick. I reeled off from memory, some of the lesser projects on hold for funding, including a couple of Hamilton butt and catcher jobs, and we mixed and matched, applied moderate discounts for multiple jobs with minimal travel time, and I billed them the $1700 when I picked up actions, benches, etc. Worked out great. We all were relieved of a stack of annoyances that we had been discussing for YEARS, they won their financial roulette game, and I made some bucks. Now if they could come up with a few multiples of $17000, we could get some of those old dead M&H As rebuilt. Maybe next year, right? Ron N
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