I have always allowed only two days a week for tuning and three days in the shop. If I fell behind in tuning work (more that two weeks booked) I would add another day tuning and make up the shop work on Saturday (I never tune on Saturday-personal quirk). I also never like working in the shop after tuning. There wasn't enough time that I was willing to spend after tuning all day to make the effort worth while. Al Guecia From: Willem Blees Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 1:48 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: rebuilding & shop repairs Rick When I had a full rebuilding business back in St. Louis, I would schedule at least 2 and sometimes 3 days a week just for shop work. I would guard those days, because I knew that if I would schedule tunings on those days, I would never get the work done. That doesn't mean I wouldn't do shop work after tuning all day, or schedule an occasional tuning on a shop day. But that is how I operated most of the time. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Honolulu, HI 808-349-2943 www.bleespiano.com Author of The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: richard.ucci at att.net To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 3:01 am Subject: rebuilding & shop repairs List, What amount of time do you spend on shop repairs and rebuilding in a given work week? Do you often work in the shop after a full day of tunings? Thanks, Rick Ucci/Ucci Piano -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's time to go back to school! Get the latest trends and gadgets that make the grade on AOL Shopping. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080804/e16333bc/attachment.html
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