<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=910303003-15022008><FONT color=#0000ff>Also, there's the little bible verses about "don't muzzle the ox as it treads out the corn", and "the laborer is worthy of his hire"...........    Wouldn't those good Christians want to be good testimonies by living up to their own scriptures, or do they only apply to the preachers??????</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=910303003-15022008><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=910303003-15022008><FONT color=#0000ff>les bartlett</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Erwinspiano@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:34 PM<BR><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Valuing ourselves<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000> <DIV> <DIV>  Wim</DIV> <DIV>  Well put. </DIV> <DIV>  Dale</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000>Schools and churches are notorious to ask for discounts. I give them a discount when I'm asked to tune more than one piano in the same building. But certainly not just because they want me to tune the same piano every month, or so. <BR><BR>One way to get around the question of a discount, is when an administrator, or church secretary, asks for a discount, just because it's a church, is to ask if they work at a discount. <BR><BR>Also, when I'm asked if I give church discounts, I tell them that I tune the pianos at my church as part of my tithing, and that I can't afford to give to other churches, too. That usually satisfy them.<BR><BR><BR> <DIV style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<BR>Piano Tuner/Technician<BR>Honolulu, HI<BR>Author of <BR>The Business of Piano Tuning<BR>available from Potter Press<BR>www.pianotuning.com</DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR> <DIV><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. <A title=http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565 href="http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565" target=_blank>AOL Music takes you there.</A></FONT></DIV><BR> <P>No virus found in this incoming message.<BR>Checked by AVG Free Edition.<BR>Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.5/1278 - Release Date: 02/14/2008 10:28 AM<BR></P></BODY></HTML>