Norma, I understand. It's so hard to make sweeping assumptions and judgements given the custom nature of each of our businesses, and email is a cold, rather context-less medium. All the same, I have seen, and see today, so many good men and women pianotechs that have undervalued their skill set, and have suffered in one way or another for it. I just want to help people out of that particular box canyon. David A. On Feb 12, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Norma Neufeld wrote: > David, I think you may have misunderstood some of my post. I do > not give away my expertise or de-value my services in any way. > Quite the contrary actually. The 'free' things I do for some > clients are things they may not even know about like taking up lost > motion on an upright for example, it's quick and easy and makes a > big difference. I explain it needs regulating etc, etc..they may > go for it, or not. All they know is that the piano sounds and > feels much better and I'm happy knowing that they will get more > enjoyment from their instrument from a few extra minutes of my time. > > A few years ago, I did a lot of cheap work for the University as > part of my training. Because of that, I now look after all the > uprights in the department for my regular fee. No discount. That > a good steady income that I can count on. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070212/27bac684/attachment.html
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