<div dir="ltr">Terry, <div><br></div><div>$5K a week to get by?! I don't know what you're smoking, but it must be pretty danged expensive! ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>That's $240,000 a year with four weeks vacation. That ain't "geting by" -- that's living pretty darn well ... even if you're living on the left coast.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Maybe you meant this jokingly??? I surely hope so.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>JF</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:45 PM, pianolover 88 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pianolover88@hotmail.com">pianolover88@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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And you should be doing at least 3-4 of those 1k jobs each work day! Nowadays, even a single person with zero debt really needs to be making at least $5,000 per week just to get by...and then just barely!<br>Anything much less than that, and you're close to the poverty level. <img> <img> <img><br>
<br>Terry Peterson<br><br>> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:59:49 +0000<br>> To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br>> From: <a href="mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca" target="_blank">pianotuna@accesscomm.ca</a><br>
> Subject: not too far off the mark<br>> <br>> Hi Julia,<br>> <br>> There is hardly a place in the world where a piano owner can't benefit from<br>> a DamppChaser. Thats about $500.00 installed with a back cover. Then there<br>
> is the initial tuning (and probaby pitch correction) Call that another<br>> $200.00. Then there is the government's share (sales tax ya know) of<br>> $70.00. Add a few tiny bits of regulation and <font size="5"><span style="font-weight:bold">1 grand for a tuning isn't</span><br style="font-weight:bold">
<span style="font-weight:bold">> really that far off the mark.</span></font><br>> Regards,<br>> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.</div>
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