<HTML>In a message dated 10/19/01 10:20:44 PM Central Daylight Time, s.haasch@worldnet.att.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">If you were to have someone like myself come and move into your village, I can imagine that you might be threatened or concerned. I would like to go in with high ethics and respectfulness.  I am a part time tuner and would like to grow a business of 6-8 pianos a week. Do you have two or three suggestions or thoughts which I might keep in mind. Thanks a lot. Steve </BLOCKQUOTE> Steve First of all, it's a free country, and any one is allowed to be in business, and "do their own thing," so to speak. I would do as Jon suggests, and introduce yourself to the other piano tuner. Find out when the next chapter meeting is, provided the major city has a PTG chapter, and introduce yourself to all the other piano tuners. If this major city is like others that I know, there is always room for another piano tuner. If your intention is to only tune 6-8 pianos a week, you won't be much of a threat to the other tuners. Go and enjoy your new environs, and have at it. You'll make new friends and your business will grow in no time. Willem </HTML>