<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">****comments interspersed.....<BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 12, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Richard Morgan wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt; font-family: garamond; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; ">I have an opportunity (?) <BR></SPAN></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>Yes. a tremendous opportunity IF you're ready for it, and IF the dealer is not a weasel---a human being that you instinctively know----just KNOW---you'd never be close to, or even trust.</DIV><DIV>DO NOT make a deal with the devil----do not work with people that make your stomach clench.</DIV><DIV>My homeboy, Warren Buffett (from my hometown, friend of my mother since childhood) took that last statement as his absolute code and mission statement---"do not work with people that make your stomach clench---" and used it to make himself 40 billion dollars and his shareholders about a trillion dollars. For real.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt; font-family: garamond; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; ">to work for a new dealer, and would appreciate some advice. I was asked by the dealer to submit a bid "on cost [to] me on floor tuning, pitch raise, complimentary tuning & pitch raise." <BR></SPAN></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>This really tells you all you need to know. This guy doesn't even bring up anything more than tuning? Ewww. Unless you're truly a raw newbie, I'd pass---but that's just me. If you are, and you need to spend a year getting a thousand tunings under your belt, fine. Get some help from a respected piano technician in your area to set your prices properly. DON'T DO THIS ALONE.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt; font-family: garamond; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; "> Shouldn't I should also include ideas on prepping the pianos? I'm still a newbie, with a small but growing clientele, and would like to have the experience this kind of work can bring.</SPAN></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>Sure. Bring it up, and specifically talk about what you've heard other, more experienced techs talk about when they refer to prep---bedding keyframe, regulation, hammer mating, voicing---and see what he says. It'll be revealing.<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt; font-family: garamond; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: garamond; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; ">If you are willing to share your ideas, you may email me off the list. I would really appreciate the opportunity to dialogue (my wife wouldn't like that word!!) on specifics.</SPAN></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>Call me, then.<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt; font-family: garamond; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: garamond; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; ">Thanks,</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: garamond; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; ">Richard Morgan</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: garamond; "><A href="mailto:richard.morgan@yahoo.com"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: garamond; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">richard.morgan@yahoo.com</SPAN></A></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>You're welcome.</DIV><DIV>David Andersen<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt; font-family: garamond; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; "> </SPAN></DIV></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>