<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:Arial;
color:windowtext;
font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none none;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Do any besides me have pianos which take 4-5 hours to tune,
and if so how do you bill for them. I have some Chickerings which take me
that long, and I have a Kawai KG2 (which I’m tuning for a serious concert)
which I simply can’t get stable. Not that I get it set and then a whole
section will go out, but I just can’t get it to go and stay where it
should. I don’t know what to do in those instances. After all I’m
hired to tune the piano, but spending that long is quite counterproductive to
income. I have a customer on whom I spend more than average time but I love
the piano and her as a unique musician. She’s a professional
accompanist. I measured a “pitch raise” after a six month passage
of time, and was an average of 1.1 cents off- so I can tune. But there are a
few which just drive me nuts. Any ideas for sanity in these instances?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Les Bartlett<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br
clear=all>
</span></font>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>