Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas to All , And to Ken I'm not missing the SNOW ! Just wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them . I seem to ha= ve slowed down . More so on the quality instruments . Like today I was= tuning a customers Steinway L (1972)  for the second time . I do= n't remember it taking as long last year .  This time the 5th & 6t= h octives had so many false beats . I stoped to seat the strings & brid= ge pins . Then I got annoyed by a clicking noise on G-6 that turned out to = be a loose hammer flange bushing . Then as I got to the lower bass another noise the keybed was knocking . = Maybe the Dampp-Chaser system I installed last year made these things show = up. All I know is I ended up running about an hour behind . Then this afternoon I ran into a KG-1 I tune every 3 months . New DC sys= tem last fall ???? wild strings 5th 6th & 7th . I ended up seating all = the bridge pins & strings it was easier to dress all the strings & = then tune . Then a buzzing sound from the case. Had to tighten every screw&= nbsp;tell I finally happened to kick a small fan with a metal cag= e setting under the piano . Fixed it ! This piano is used for Jazz gigs , N= ow everyone will wounder why the pianist is sweating . I tossed the fan .An= other hour behind ! I seem to be spending more time on the grands I tu= ne then before . The spinets well I do my best . Even a nice U-3 or 1 will = slow me down with one thing or another . Am I just hearing better ? Has my experience gotten to the point wh= ere I find more things that I would have missed before (most likely). I kno= w that most of the pianist don't hear these things . I'm also afraid that t= he ones that do feel that they got a poor tuning . Before I got into tuning= as a player I didn't hear 90 percent of what I do now . And I'm sure that = most people grow accustomed to what they are play day in & out. They mu= st because when I'm done with every piano I play it . Most of the spinets I= hate . They think it sounds great . Even the little spinet I played for ye= ars as a kid hurts to play now . Back then it was great ! At what point do you decide to charge for these little extras . Or = should you cover your tunings by fixing the little things . For now thats w= here I'm at . It sure can make you run behind though . Thanks for the input on reselling services . I'm sure now that I'm not c= harging enough . Brett Glass A Sharp Piano Service Maui PS: I won't tell you how I fixed the loose bushing other than to sa= y I had none with me . And most likely that flange will need to be replaced= next time it needs to be rebushed . It was loose to the wood in the flange= . I know the quick fix police are going to pull me over for speeding to th= e next job . Guess -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of game= s for FREE! <a href="http://games.mail.com/" target="_blank">http://gam= es.mail.com/</a>