Don writes:
>Define successful please. If you mean the client was satisfied then I would
>class it as successful.
Greetings,
I suppose 'success' can be defined any way we like. I think the
ultimately successful tuning is one that not only sounds good, makes the
client happy to pay, etc. but also creates new business for the tuner. I
don't think we can ask for more than that as a return on our tuning. My
entire approach in advocating a variety of temperaments has been to create
more "success" for the tuners willing to broaden their approach. I have seen
it happen that a local tuner in a medium sized city finds themself the ONLY
practicioner of temperaments and some of the cream of the crop has shifted
their tuning business over to him. He has successfully raised his prices and
still has more to do than ever before.
Admittedly, going crazy over something can cost business, too, but there
are ways around that.
regards,
Ed Foote RPT
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