<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=US-ASCII"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> It’s an argument for full = service appointments in which you schedule additional time to do things other = than tuning.  And, of course, you charge more for those = appointments.    <div> David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net </div> -----Original = Message----- From: = pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of BRETT GLASS Sent: Friday, December = 16, 2005 11:25 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Tuning = time   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 have slowed down . More so on the quality = instruments . Like today I was tuning a customers Steinway L (1972)  for the = second time . I don't remember it taking as long last year .  This time = the 5th & 6th octives had so many false beats . I stoped to seat the strings = & bridge 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 system 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 tell I finally happened to kick a small fan = with a metal cage setting under the piano . Fixed it ! This piano is used for = Jazz gigs , Now everyone will wounder why the pianist is sweating . I tossed = the fan .Another hour behind ! I seem to be spending more time on the = grands I tune 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 where I find more things that I would have missed = before (most likely). I know that most of the pianist don't hear these things . = I'm also afraid that the 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 must 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 years 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 where 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 charging enough . Brett Glass A Sharp Piano Service Maui PS: I won't tell you how I fixed the loose = bushing other than to say 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 the next job . Guess -- ______________________________________________= _____ Play 100s of games for FREE! <a href="http://games.mail.com/" = target="_blank">http://games.mail.com/</a> </div> </body> </html>