<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY text=#000066 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hi, you can divide your = tuning price by 1.5 to give you a fair hourly labour rate</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>For Joe Garrett  = (labour is what you call labor, in case you were confused again)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Brian</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pianotuning@instrumentalinks.com = href="mailto:pianotuning@instrumentalinks.com">pianotuning@instrumental= inks.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 06 August, 2004 7:36 = PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> hourly rates</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=367133317-06082004><FONT face="Lucida Sans" = color=#ff0000 size=2>Hello.  I'm fairly new (have been working on pianos for = about 10 months).  What do you charge as an hourly rate for labor = when working on a piano? <BR>Thanks, </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=367133317-06082004><FONT face="Lucida Sans" = color=#ff0000 size=2>Jon Lindblom</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=367133317-06082004><FONT face="Lucida Sans" = color=#ff0000 size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>