Recording Studio Tuning

[Farrell]

What is the attraction to trying to make someone look foolish when all the facts have not been spelled out? Are you suggesting that you would have charged 1.5 times 3 tunings? Let's say you charge $75 for standard tuning (that's my standard tuning fee). Are you suggesting that you would have charged the guy $337.50 to tune a piano that was 5 cents off?

I charged him 1.5 times my regular rate - for a pitch raise and a tuning - that is, 1.5 times my regular tuning fee of $75 plus 1.5 times my pitch raise fee of $40. That came out to $172.50 for 1.5 hours of work. I can live with that. I would hardly call that "3 tunings for the price of 1.5" on very many rate sheets.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: Recording Studio Tuning


> Hi Terry,
> 
> I respectfully submit that you performed 3 tunings for the price of 1.5.
> Either the client pays or the tuner pays.
> 
> >I did a pitch raise/adjust pass (mostly in the 2 to 6 cents range), a
> tuning pass, and a touch-up pass. Charged him a bundle (1.5 times my
> regular rate, which I detailed out to him).
> >
> >Terry Farrell

> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Center of
> the Arts