[pianotech] year so far

[Dean May]

When I tune for really good friends or close family I give them the option
of taking my wife and I out to dinner. They save a little and we get a
really nice evening out with great friends.
 
<name withheld to protect the guilty>

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Susan Kline
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 11:46 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] year so far


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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