---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 12/2/04 6:08:22 AM Pacific Standard Time, lgulli2586@rogers.com writes: > I am an avid reader of the archives. Quite often I hear people refer to > their shop. I wondered if the shop is in your house, and another building on > site...or a separate building with public access. Also after 5 years in > business what is reasonable to expect number of tunings weekly, repairs, rebuilds, > refinishing etc. Do you do all the above, none of the above. > I dont have much to compare to and am curious to see where I stand...or > should I consider a new direction. FWIW I hope to achieve RPT in 2005. > Richard, I have a shop in the garage, but it's only seen a little use. Most of my time is spent at clients' homes or on the road. My schedule has been pretty full for the whole year, and while I keep threatening to expand the use that it gets, it hasn't happened yet. But it's there if and when I need it. I do tuning, repairs, regulation, evaluations and estimates. Haven't done much rebuilding yet, but have done a bit of restringing and the like--most of it in the customers' homes. My average tuning schedule for a week in 2004 would have seen me at around 15 appointments a week, most private, but some store warranty jobs as well. The regulation and repair jobs are usually booked after an assessment at the original appointment. I spend maybe a day a month in stores I was fortunate in that I had many contacts in the business before going on my own. I learned tuning basics almost 30 years ago, spent time as a mover, a salesperson, and as an "all of the above" at a small store. I never burned any bridges, so when I needed good will after some personal travails, people were willing to help me out with business. The first couple of years I did a lot of store work. Now I have to make special time to do any store work at all for people who have helped me out. This is my 4th year at it as a full-timer. I also am looking forward to passing the tuning and technical tests in 2005. I've had trouble fitting them into my schedule (weak excuse...)-;), but I have about a year left to try, or I'll have to re-take the written--time to get hoppin'! Do you have good contact with dealers, schools, churches, and teachers in the area? Things do snowball eventually, if you're conscientious, do good work, and aren't Charles Manson. Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c2/ba/f4/26/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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