<HTML>In a message dated 9/3/01 2:35:52 PM Central Daylight Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com (Farrell) writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Sure would beat flipping burgers for 20 hours a week to earn $100. What of it though? I have a very bright 12 year old son. Maybe someone for the university environment could provide an opinion. If an 18 year old goes off the Big U., and has basic tuning skills - can make that Acrosonic sing like, er, ah.........well, as good as an Acrosonic can sing - I should think that he/she could average a few tunings a week. Some local advertising. Advertising in the school paper. What about it? Do you think a kid with basic tuning skills can plan on being able to make a couple hundred a week? Maybe attract 4 or 5 tunings a week? Would it be common to even find that there might be a place grinding out a few basic tunings a week on practice room pianos</BLOCKQUOTE>? That's how I earned my way from the age of 17.   Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin</HTML>