"I don't know where these guys that claim they do 5 pianos a day find their clients -- all the ones I work on need pitch raises, repairs, regulation, and who knows what ..." D. Nereson Right on. There's tremendous amounts of piano service money lying around waiting to be picked up by the complete piano service business. I highly recommend that every tuner-technician become a complete piano service; then the days of 5 or 6 a day, 5 or 6 days a week, fade and become a horrific and cautionary memory. ALL the pianos I come to need work other than tuning. I'll say it again: ALL the pianos I come to need work other than tuning. If you can't understand or perceive this you need a huge reality check. You are the equivalent of a mechanic just putting gas in the tank and saying the car is good to go. That may sound brutal, but it's the truth. I make six figures every year just on piano service, and I work five weeks out of every six for medical reasons. That means I'm getting paid a lot; and I rarely or ever work on more than two pianos a day, and often just one. I would say 95% of the new client pianos I come to have not had any regular service other than tuning in their lifetime---even studios and serious players, although the percentage in those categories is probably lower---70%---it's enough to keep us in work here in L.A. for the foreseeable future. Once players hear and feel the radical positive change we make by implementing complete piano service, most of them become grateful, elegant clients for life. It's rewarding on all levels. Here's my definition of complete piano service as it appears on my website: The ability to understand, diagnose, and implement the work necessary to put a piano in its maximum playing condition, and keep it there, through judicious maintenance, throughout its years of use. Best, David Andersen On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:02 AM, David Nereson wrote: > About 15, but then I purposely don't do more than 3 day if I can > avoid it -- too hectic, too hard on the hands & ears, too long a day > (few and very far between are pianos that need tuning only -- I > don't know where these guys that claim they do 5 pianos a day find > their clients -- all the ones I work on need pitch raises, repairs, > regulation, and who knows what -- if I did even 4 pianos a day > needing all that extra work, I'd be at it from 5am to 9 at night!) > --David Nereson, RPT > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard" <richard.ucci at att.net> > To: <pianotech at ptg.org> > Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:21 AM > Subject: [pianotech] Workload > > >> List, >> How many tunings are you averaging per week? >> >> Rick Ucci/ Ucci Piano > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091111/1c70888f/attachment.htm>
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