<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV>Greetings,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>      Geee, these posts are encouraging me to raise my rate. In my area, other tuners are charging $60 to $65 for a tuning (! !) , two of us charge $80 and for me, I feel that I do tuning right, setting my pin and strings, <EM><U>my</U></EM> tunings last, not fall apart the first time you rail some Beethoven. I spend a minimum of 2 hours on a tuning, and the folks around here think $80 is expensive! Is $10 a lot of raise at one time, or should I go higher?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Julia</DIV> <DIV>Reading, PA</DIV><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><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></BODY></HTML>