<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Matthew Todd <<a href="mailto:toddpianoworks@yahoo.com">toddpianoworks@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div>How much do you normally charge for a pitch raise?  Do you base the price off of your regular tuning rate?  Say you charge $100 for a standard tuning.  Would you say a pitch raise would be half of the tuning rate, or more?</div> </blockquote><div> </div></div><div>It's going to depend on how flat it is.  If it's more than 40 cents flat, what I'm doing now is two quick pitch raises, with the fine tuning scheduled 3-4 weeks later.  For this I charge a standard tuning fee.  (Keep in mind that this first session is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span> a fine tuning.  I will also tell the customer that this first session is not designed to be a fine tuning, and they need to have the followup tuning.)</div> <div><br></div><div>If I'm doing a pitch raise, and a fine tuning at the same time, the pitch raise will be roughly half of the tuning fee.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, with any pitch correction + fine tuning (say over 10 cents), I'll mention that the fine tuning will not be as stable because of the pitch raise.</div> <br>-- <br>JF