Greg Newell wrote: > Ron, > Your world is much like my world. Even though I use an ETD and can > show the customer just how far off the piano is when I get there I try to > satisfy their criteria not my own. I'm certainly glad that I'm not a > customer of anyone who employs such stringent rules for their tunings. I'd > feel so ... used. > > Greg Newell Well, yea. That has been sort of my reaction. As a consumer, I've perpetually wished for a rational criteria against which I'm otherwise arbitrarily bled. For the most part universally lacking one from my bleeders, I try to supply rational justification to my bleedees, so they don't feel arbitrarily bled. If I charge them, they've bought something I consider necessary rather than merely profitable to me. A quick look around tells me that this isn't necessarily the usual approach, which I consider a sad testament to the state of the profession. But then we don't all live in the same world, and given a monoseasonal climate, I'd very possibly be really put out by having to deal with a monster 3 cent pitch change when the norm is a 20 minute touch up of a tuning that hasn't realistically moved since I last did it. We may all carry the same credentials, but we don't all have the same job to do. My April 4 take (for 12 more minutes). Ron N
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