In need of some encouragement

[David Ilvedson]

I'd have come back with counter-offer of $75.   But whatever you are tuning 3 pianos at one site.   Just cut down your tuning time so it all works out...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044


----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: Avery <avery1 at houston.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 9/8/2006 4:03:44 PM
Subject: Re: In need of some encouragement


>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

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>>----- 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
>>>
>>>
>>>