I tune hard listen soft, but at times I'll find myself tuning soft in a noisy room nursing home, then I'll snap out of it and get to work and forget what others think. I walked over to our piano on Sunday after church and played the three pivital tones/thirds a few times back and forth to check the tuning and my pastor got all over my case. I keep telling him that the piano is a little out of tune, not much but enough to be bothersome. some unisons are out etc. The guy that regularly tunes it uses an ETD Sanderson I believe. He starts on one end goes up and then does unisons. Marshall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery" <avery1@houston.rr.com> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:06 PM Subject: Re: What's a fair price to charge for tuning a piano > Because he tuned very softly (used to working in a store and not bothering > the customers/salesmen! > Couldn't hold up to university piano students for 15+ hrs. a day! > > Avery > > At 01:45 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote: >>Why didn't his tunings hold? >>Marshall >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery" <avery1@houston.rr.com> >>To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> >>Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:23 PM >>Subject: Re: What's a fair price to charge for tuning a piano >> >> >>>At 01:15 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote: >>>>At 01:01 PM 2/9/2006 -0600, you wrote: >>>>>Conrad, >>>>> >>>>>Unfortunately, there's a store here in Houston that will only pay >>>>>$15.00 for a store tuning. And damn it, there are tuners here who will >>>>>do it for that! :-( >>>>> >>>>>Avery >>>> >>>> >>>>I got $12.50, but that was in '79. I could fill my gas tank for $5 then. >>>>Those tooners all on foot? Sleep under bridges? Shopping carts for tool >>>>kits? >>>Actually, no. But two of them that I know of are blind. IMO, I think >>>they're afraid to say no to that price for fear of losing the work. One >>>of them used to tune our "lease" pianos but the tuning wouldn't last >>>'till he got out the door! Now I'm doing them for that price because I >>>got tired of having to redo them anyway. For free! At least I don't have >>>to go anywhere. He actually had a driver he had to pay! >>>Avery >>> >>>>Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician >>>>Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 >>>>1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076 >>>> >>>>- Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score, >>>>- Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap. >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >>_______________________________________________ >>Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > _______________________________________________ > Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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