Well, like LaRoy Edwards has said, "If you would like to make more money, wear a tie. It's Ok if you don't want to make more money. But if you do, wear a tie." Ryan On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Marshall Gisondi <pianotune05 at hotmail.com>wrote: > Hi Everyone, > By responding to the list about aural tuning, I feel as if I just bought a > puppy and forgot to house train him, I better watch where I step. :-) As a > vison impaired person, we were trained the aural method at the school of > course. I recall hearing about an instance where Jim Coleman and Virgel > Smith tuned. When comared, the tunings turned out similar. My take is, be > the best at what you are best at, forgive the lingo here. If using one of > those fancy gadgets is your thing then by all means be the best you can be. > If using God's tuning device is your thing then use it. However, I think > every piano tech should have a firm grasp on aural tuning should the > energizer bunny decide to take a vacation while you're tuning. > > I wear nice docker type pants or cargo type pants and a dress shirt with > either a sweater vest or sweater lately. Or if it's warm enough, just a > dress shirt or button down collar shirt. In the summer I'll wear a nice > golf shirt with docker type pants. I'm thinking about having golf shirts > made with my company name on them. I love the pen idea, and I want to check > out these books. Hopefully I can get them on barnes & Noble or Amazon. > Wearing a tie, aint gonna happen, unless of course I am tuning for a special > occasion. I will wear dress pants and dress shoes and dress shirt of > course. I have a friend who does wear the sport coat and tie to work. It > was interesting watching him help me fix a piano bench in my basement > wearing church clothes. :-) I have about 100 ties I I don't even wear. > However, if this is the key to obtaining more work, hey maybe I'll try it. > > Well that's my take on things. What do you guys think? > > > Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician > Marshall's Piano Service > *pianotune05 at hotmail.com* > 215-510-9400 > *www.phillytuner.com * > Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind > www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA > > > > > > > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110126/d02e82a2/attachment-0001.htm>
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