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<DIV>Greetings,</DIV>
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<DIV> Does anyone else
out there feel that you need more time to tune Steinways? Is it just me or
what? I am thinking of charging alittle more to tune them. I have been tuning
for 5 years.</DIV>
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<DIV>Julia Gottshall,</DIV>
<DIV>Reading, PA </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=3>I assume you want to charge more because
they take longer. If Steinways take longer, then so should any other
piano with no tuning pin bushings. And if we charge more for pianos that
take longer, then we'd also have to charge more for: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=3>-Korean and Chinese pianos, because
they need so much in the way of aligning hammers to strings
and spacing unisons in order to get the hammers to hit all the
strings so they can be tuned</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=3>-Baldwins, especially newer ones,
because of having to wrestle with tight tuning pins</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=3>-brand new pianos, or those just a few
years old, again because of tight tuning pins that are hard to
set</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=3>-full uprights, because one has to stand
the whole time</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=3>-any piano with loose tuning pins,
because it takes extra time to set them or drive/replace them</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=3>-certain Wurlitzer spinets, because
they're so inaccessible and case parts have to be removed just to get at the
tuning pins</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=3>-any piano that takes longer because the
strings don't render easily through the bridges/pressure bar/capo and you have
to wrestle more to set pins. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=3>etc. etc. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=3>Do you plan on charging more for
Steinways but not Boesendorfers and other high-end
makes? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=3> --David Nereson,
RPT </FONT></DIV>
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