[pianotech] year so far

[Susan Kline]

On 1/2/2011 8:38 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
> On 1/2/2011 10:11 PM, Susan Kline wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tuned for barter?
>
>
> Barter stinks. Every bozo out there thinks his ten minutes of training 
> and education puts him at the same income scale as you. So if you're 
> willing to tune for a $3.00 sparkly, or a really impressive five 
> minute horoscope, you're set for life. It can actually work, but it's 
> a once in a very great while thing, rather than a day by day.
> Ron N
>
>
Certainly not with just anyone, or for whatever they choose to offer. 
They have to have something valuable for you which they are willing to 
part with.

Ted Sambell told me that piano tuners did relatively well in the 
Depression, compared to most people who were simply out of work. They 
could barter their services, so they weren't totally without income of a 
sort. He talked about a guy who came home from a tuning in the 
Depression with a trunk full of cabbages. (Make that into sauerkraut, 
you'll eat it all winter ...)

Susan
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