<html> At 12:55 PM 1/10/02 -0500, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>In a message dated 1/10/02 9:28:48 AM Central Standard Time, Billbrpt@AOL.COM writes: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Wouldn't an easier and more accurate way of determining this number be to look in the phone book and count the names, then add maybe 10% for those who don't list themselves? Bill Bremmer RPT </blockquote></blockquote> I have a sort of corollary question, having nothing much to do with Fermi's original notion, but something to do with the number of tuners in metropolitan areas. Are there more techs than tuning work in most metropolitan areas in the US, or is there a shortage of tuners?   Is any part of the country more likely to be hurting for techs than any other?  Any area  overrun with techs? And another corollary: how many out there on the list make their living solely from tuning and repair?  Do most of you have other jobs as well (teaching or selling instruments or whatever)?  Do those of you who rebuild make more from rebuilding than from tuning?  (I teach college part-time and look to piano work to help subsidize a precarious income as adjunct faculty.  I also do it because I love it.) Does PTG publish any stats or demographics on these issues? Mickey Kessler </html>