<div>Terry,</div> <div> </div> <div>I'm jealous.  16 pianos every two weeks!  I had 8 tunings last week and I have 5 scheduled for this week, and that's it.  I could sure use 16 every two weeks to supplement what else comes my way.  </div> <div> </div> <div>This area (Chicago and burbs) is crawling with piano tuners.  It's almost like those movies you see of the locusts in Africa, swarming over everything, tuning everything in their path.  There's nary a unison out of tune in the whole Chicago area.</div> <div> </div> <div>Speaking of similes between Chicago and Africa, we're supposed to hit 100 degrees today.  I guess I should be happy I have only one tuning today, and with the client in a rather affluent area, I'm sure she'll have air conditioning.</div> <div> </div> <div>Maybe I'll go bowl a couple of games this afternoon.</div> <div> </div> <div>Tom Sivak</div> <div>Chicago<BR><BR><B><I>Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Under most common circumstances, where the piano gets tuned yearly or so, I <BR>agree. However, some pianos are tuned much more frequently.<BR><BR>For example, I tune 16 Yamaha C3s on cruise ships every two weeks. In no way <BR>shape or form do I wiggle each string on every piano every two weeks - <BR>besides, I don't get paid enough to do that. There is no expectation that <BR>these pianos are in concert condition at all times, but they do want them <BR>pretty darn close - and that's what they get. So in this case, on a typical <BR>visit to a ship, some pianos will get a handful of unisons tweaked, some <BR>will get many tweaked, and a couple pianos will get a full tuning (every <BR>string adjusted).<BR><BR>I get a fee significantly less than my standard tuning fee for maintaining <BR>the pianos on the cruise ships - and hence they get significantly less than <BR>a full tuning each appointment - but that is understood and desired by all <BR>parties.<BR><BR>I imagine there are other situations, some churches, performance venues, <BR>recording studios, etc. that see frequent tunings where the pianos see <BR>something along the lines of what I do on the ship. But if they want a <BR>spot-on tuning each time, and they pay your full tuning fee, then they <BR>should get every string tuned.<BR><BR>I think the bottom line is, that if your client is paying you your full <BR>tuning fee, then every string should be tuned - give 'em what they are <BR>paying for.<BR><BR>Terry Farrell<BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR><BR><BR>In a message dated 7/30/2006 7:18:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, <BR>michelle@cdaustin.com writes:<BR>Hi all. I’m interested to know how many “don’t-touch’em unisons” y’all <BR>come across in your daily work<BR>None. No such thing. The same forces that cause some notes to be out of <BR>tune have acted on all the others. The fact that some of them have not yet <BR>rendered across their bearing points doesn't mean that they aren't about to. <BR>Each string needs to be reset.<BR><BR>Bob Davis<BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>> I don't accept freebies, because they aren't. Touching them almost always <BR>> indicates why.<BR>> Ron N <BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>