<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Avery, Kenny can answer better than I, but I see a subtle difference in wording here.  In the last statement of his that you included below, he didn't write that he *tunes* two pianos a day, but that he *does* two.  Once in a while I *do* pianos where even two a day would be a stretch, although my normal maximum is five, four days per week. I know of at least one other person on this list for whom two is the daily number.  He also stated that his goal for his clients was to keep the pianos as close to perfect as possible.  So it may take a half-day to service the piano, and of course the charge is much higher than for a simple tuning. And I am so thankful that we have technicians of that level of skill, but I am not one of them.  I see myself as down the middle, and for that service I find constant demand beyond what I can supply.  The upper end technicians apparently find the same thing.  Back to my time-worn statement -- there's room for us all, if we provide good service for what we charge. Regards, Clyde Hollinger, RPT Avery Todd wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid6.0.1.1.2.20040108214101.02c36110@mail.ev1.net">At 07:00 AM 1/8/04, you wrote: Kenny, And you're able to make a decent living tuning only 2 pianos a day????? Just wondering and wishing I could do that! :-) Averyh <blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="">Not long ago I was called to tune a new Estonia Grand. I had been overdoing it. That doesn't pay, does it? My rule is never to do more than two pianos a day. </blockquote> </blockquote> </body> </html>