The climate is not what makes a piano go out of tune. It's the local weather. Although there are seasonal changes, in any given week, or month, the temperature and humidity changes enough to throw off the tuning on all pianos. Back in St. Louis, if all of my customers waited to have their pianos tuned until the weather changed, I would never have any work. Give this client another call and explain the difference between climate and weather, and see if she's ready to have her piano tuned. If she still balks, chances are, she probably doesn't want to spend the money right now to have her piano tuned. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician 94-505 Kealakaa Str. Mililani, Oahu, HI 96789 808-349-2943 www.Bleespiano.com Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Tue, Feb 23, 2010 6:47 am Subject: [pianotech] Tuning in climate changes Hi list, I just had a cancellation this morning from a client who received advise from another tuner not to get her piano tuned just yet, because we are in the middle of a cold spell, and to wait until the weather gets warmer, otherwise her piano would go out of tune once the weather warmed up. That is good advise, however, I was wondering how many of us give that advise on a regular basis. I guess if some of you would enjoy (and can afford) a three month vacation, then I am sure that would be the advise you would give. Thoughts anyone? TODD PIANO WORKS Matthew Todd, Piano Technician (979) 248-9578 http://www.toddpianoworks.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100223/fc42db8f/attachment.htm>
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