Bingo! When I lived in Washington state, I didn't even have a basement. No shop or anything. I found a very generous tech who has an enormous shop who openly let me bring in pianos for no charge. (Thank you, Roger!!) I'm sure that Duaine could figure out a way to do that as well in his area. Paul From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey at sbcglobal.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: 05/19/2010 07:59 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Lost business Conventions are more than learning. You connect with other technicians...you make friends...maybe someone with space in their shop. No local chapter? David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Duaine Hechler" <dahechler at att.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 5/19/2010 3:00:30 PM Subject: [pianotech] Lost business >About two years ago, I had the opportunity to do a - complete - rebuild >(finish and all) on an old square grand. >Was probably going to make at least $10,000 - BUT - I had no shop to >move the piano to >SO I lost the job. >Now, I hope some smart-a** is not going to try and tell me that learning >about square grands at a convention would have gained me this job! >-- >Duaine Hechler >Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ >Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding >Reed Organ Society Member >Florissant, MO 63034 >(314) 838-5587 >dahechler at att.net >www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com >-- >Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100520/4b46f35b/attachment-0001.htm>
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