At 01:50 PM 9/8/2006, you wrote: >About an hour later she calls back and had to cancel as the >administrator told her unless the charge was $50 or less per piano >they would not pay for it. That is almost half the going rate so I >lost the 3 piano tunings. I can't help but wonder what HIS salary is? Probably over $20,000 a year!!!!!!!! Ya think? Avery >JAMES >James Grebe Piano Tuning & Repair Member of M.P.T. >R.P.T. of the P.T.G. for over 30 years. "Member of the Year" in 1989 >Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups, Piano Benches, Writing >Instruments,Table Timepieces >(314) 845-8282 1526 Raspberry Lane Arnold, MO 63010 >Researcher of St. Louis Theatre History >BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE! >pianoman at accessus.net >----- Original Message ----- From: "David B. Stang" ><stangdave at columbus.rr.com> >To: <pianotech at ptg.org> >Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 11:57 AM >Subject: In need of some encouragement > > >>Friends, >>I'm feeling a little bit discouraged for two reasons. >> >>First, I am really struggling with my aural temperament tuning. I >>understand intellectually how it is supposed to fit together, how >>all the intervals ought to beat, and so on. But I have been >>practicing at home and at customers' homes for a few months now, >>and I still just can't do it right. By "do it right" I mean get it >>close enough to pass the RPT exam (I use my ETD to test myself). My >>main problem, I think, is, I just can't always hear the beats. For >>instance, I can nearly always hear the F3-A3 Major 3rd, and the >>F3-D4 6th. But I struggle to hear the A3-C#4 and especially >>struggle to hear the C#4-F4. I can't percieve those faster beats. >>And sometimes I can't hear the beating even when it's supposed to >>be slow. Sometimes the 5ths and 4ths are loud and clear; other >>times they are not there at all. Are my ears the problem? Is it my brain? >> >>Second, I am discouraged with my business. I could use some more >>customers. I have gotten every kind of marketing advice imaginable >>- that's not what I need. I am unhappy because I am kind of shy, >>and I just don't do some of those assertive things that many >>business people do. It doesn't come naturally for me to sell >>myself. (Like my friend Jon Ralinovsky who was just e-ridiculed on >>this list, for simply posting the link to the Cincinnati Seminar >>without tooting his own horn about the good stuff he has lined up!) >>Maybe I don't have the right personality to run my own business. >> >>Any words of wisdom would be appreciated. >>Thanks >> >>David B. Stang, 2/3-rds of the way toward RPT >>Columbus, Ohio >> >> >>
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