Mike Good on you. It is a mystery to me why some folks think that we should work for free or stand around on our own dime waiting for the "artist" to show up. I wonder if they'd concsent to being paid less for being employed by the prestige college,cuz its a priveldge! Not! Deh noive a som paple Dale I have to agree with Gerald, in situations such as you and the others describe, it's not what or how much we do but rather the time we spend that we could be elsewhere charging full rate! So why would you not charge full rate in these instances? A friend and mentor used to use the analogy that a tuning is like a haircut, after the barber has finished cutting the right side and starts on the left, the right side is already growing. After we have finished tuning half the piano those unisons are already deteriorating, minutely to the point of being indiscernible but nevertheless it's happening. I have a college nearby that is the most prestigeous, musically, in town. They called me to do their concert work last year beginning in August and by October they stopped calling. They felt I should be grateful to be doing their work, shouldn't charge a weekend rate for a Sunday morning tuning for a faculty recital. I believe what convinced them I wasn't going to charge less for the "prestige" of tuning for them was when I charged for the time I waited for sound check for Jim Brickman, I was told 3:30, he wandered in at 5:35, rehearsed for over an hour, Curtain was at 7:30. My touch-up took 20 minutes, I had pre-tuned the day before. I don't need that. Mike -- I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100108/7dfdc4d6/attachment-0001.htm>
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