<HTML><HEAD> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY>As a Minotian until 1973, I have to admit $50 seems a= little low.  I was charging $20 in 1974 in Minot fresh out= of Western Iowa Tech.<BR><BR>David I.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px;= PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid;= PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: Alan Barnard= <TUNE4U@EARTHLINK.NET><BR>To: Pianotech= <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:20:14= -0500<BR>Subject: RE: Tuning price<BR><BR> <DIV align=left>Yet another answer to the oft asked question "Why= not Minot?"<BR><BR>I'm getting $85 from the local hill folk.= </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I think it's time for tunings to increase at least 50% in= North Dakota. Plus $0.50 per mile. Plus $1.00 for every degree= below 32 degrees Farenheit, $10 per degree below zero, $10 for= every inch of snow over 37, an extra $500 on days when the= temperature hits zero degrees Kelvin, and a $1000 surcharge= on the <EM>really</EM> nippy days.<BR><BR>And those would= be the <EM>summer season</EM> rates.<BR><BR>Alan= Barnard<BR>Salem, Missouri<BR><BR>> John,<BR>><BR>>= $50.00 in Minot, North Dakota<BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>