<html> <body> >my pastor got all over my case. < Avery At 07:37 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi Avery, What are you curious about? Marshall   <dl> <dd>-------------- Original message -------------- <dd>From: Avery <avery1@houston.rr.com> <dd>> At 02:22 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote: <dd>> >I tune hard listen soft, but at times I'll find myself tuning soft <dd>> >in a noisy room nursing home, then I'll snap out of it and get to <dd>> >work and forget what others think. I walked over to our piano on <dd>> >Sunday after church and played the three pivital tones/thirds a few <dd>> >times back and forth to check the tuning and my pastor got all over my case. <dd>> <dd>> Just curious but why? <dd>> <dd>> >I keep telling him that the piano is a little out of tune, not much <dd>> >but enough to be bothersome. some unisons are out etc. The guy that <dd>> >regularly tunes it uses an ETD Sanderson I believe. He starts on one <dd>> >end goes up and then does unisons. <dd>> <dd>! > That tells me he's not an aural tuner. No one that is would tune a <dd>> piano that way. Except for a pitch raise! <dd>> <dd>> Avery <dd>> <dd>> >Marshall <dd>> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery" <dd>> >To: "Pianotech List" <dd>> >Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:06 PM <dd>> >Subject: Re: What's a fair price to charge for tuning a piano <dd>> > <dd>> > <dd>> >>Because he tuned very softly (used to working in a store and not <dd>> >>bothering the customers/salesmen! <dd>> >>Couldn't hold up to university piano students for 15+ hrs. a day! <dd>> >> <dd>> >>Avery <dd>> >> <dd>> >>At 01:45 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote: <dd>> >>>Why didn't his tunings hold? <dd>> >>>Marshall <dd>> >>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery" <dd>> >>>To: "Pia! notech List" <dd>> >>>Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:23 PM <dd>> >>>Subject: Re: What's a fair price to charge for tuning a piano <dd>> >>> <dd>> >>> <dd>> >>>>At 01:15 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote: <dd>> >>>>>At 01:01 PM 2/9/2006 -0600, you wrote: <dd>> >>>>>>Conrad, <dd>> >>>>>> <dd>> >>>>>>Unfortunately, there's a store here in Houston that will only <dd>> >>>>>>pay $15.00 for a store tuning. And damn it, there are tuners <dd>> >>>>>>here who will do it for that! :-( <dd>> >>>>>> <dd>> >>>>>>Avery <dd>> >>>>> <dd>> >>>>> <dd>> >>>>>I got $12.50, but that was in '79. I could fill my gas tank for <dd>> >>>>>$5 then. Those tooners all on foot? Sleep under bridges! ? <dd>> >>>>>Shopping carts for tool kits? <dd>> >>>>Actually, no. But two of them that I know of are blind. IMO, I <dd>> >>>>think they're afraid to say no to that price for fear of losing <dd>> >>>>the work. One of them used to tune our "lease" pianos but the <dd>> >>>>tuning wouldn't last 'till he got out the door! Now I'm doing <dd>> >>>>them for that price because I got tired of having to redo them <dd>> >>>>anyway. For free! At least I don't have to go anywhere. He <dd>> >>>>actually had a driver he had to pay! <dd>> >>>>Avery <dd>> >>>> <dd>> >>>>>Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician <dd>> >>>>>Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 <dd>> >>>>>1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076 <dd>> >>>>> <dd>> >>>>>-! Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score, <dd>> >>>>>- Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap. <dd>> >>>>> <dd>> >>>>>_______________________________________________ <dd>> >>>>>Pianotech list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl"> https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> <dd>> >>>>_______________________________________________ <dd>> >>>>Pianotech list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl"> https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> <dd>> >>>_______________________________________________ <dd>> >>>Pianotech list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl"> https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> <dd>> >> <dd>> >>_______________________________________________ <dd>> >>Pianotech list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl"> https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> <dd>> > <dd>> >_______________________________________________ <dd>> >Pianotech list info: <a href="http://www.ptg.org/ma" eudora="autourl">http://www.ptg.org/ma</a> ! ilman/listinfo/pianotech <dd>> <dd>> _______________________________________________ <dd>> Pianotech list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl"> https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> </dl></blockquote></body> </html>