<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> AMEN. Great post, Les. Please read and re-read.....just two pieces of advice:<div>---please don't call yourself senile; you're not, and words have power.</div><div>---PLEASE raise your rates; there is no doubt that you're worth it.<br><div>xoDA</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:28 AM, Leslie Bartlett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="621262514-23012008"><font color="#0000ff">This may sound really corny, but I go to each piano with a question: "Would you (piano) teach me what you need?" Preconceived notions go away, and I am a student with each tuning. Instead of trying to force the piano to "tune", I try to be sensitive to each nuance. It makes tuning more pleasant, and in the long run has made my tunings better and faster........... But I'm getting old and senile, so every moment is valued more. I make less than some tuners, but I think I rather enjoy it more for the final results. This attitude has helped through many difficult situations.</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="621262514-23012008"><font color="#0000ff">les bartlett</font></span></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>