This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi, Elwood, Use the PTG pamplets. They are the BEST guides you can put into your customer's hands. I also have written a "little" guide that I hand to each and every piano customer of mine explaining the design, make up, stress, etc., etc., that happens and is going on CONSTANLY in their piano. Once they understand WHAT is happening with their piano, in and around the enviroment, they come to reason. I tell them, " My tuning your piano twice a year is like an insurance policy. You take care of your piano, which IS an instrument, NOT a piece of furniture, and it will take care of you." It's the "nature" of the design. NO way around it. ( well, buy a keyboard, but I DON'T tell them that. I like my "job security") With the "Up Beat" Christian (song) movement now days in churches, they find out more about "KEYBOARDS" own their own than what best for "their own good." Well, enough said. Use the PTG Pamphlets. Get the pamplets from the PTG Stores. Goto the web-site. You know it. www.ptg.org They are WORTH the money spent to give to your customers to encourage re-tunings. I like to give them a "visual" and I tell them, " You can afford to have your piano tuned at least once a year, every year, IF you put two (2) dollars a week in a Jar, every week for 52 weeks." They'll figure that out, and say, " You charge $104.00 dollars to tune a piano ?? Gee, that a lot !! " I say, " no, I don't, but you'll have a little extra for repairs if something breaks, or you have an accident with the piano, and break it yourself." " Oh, yeah, you're right ..." Double that, and you can have it tuned twice a year, which is what you as a piano owner -- SHOULD do. I hope it helps, Elwood. " Give 'em Heaven !! " ( that's what I started saying instead of ' give 'em H__L.' Nobody needs that. I don't. ) Ha !! just being funny. Remember ?? " Give 'em H__L, Harry." ( from the Truman days.) Best to ya's, Danny Tassin, RPT ========================================================================= ======= On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:28:14 -0600 "Elwood Doss" <edoss@utm.edu> writes: Good question! I service a number of churches and try to get them to tune on a regular basis. I’d be interested in some type of guideline for churches...something I could show the senior pastor or music minister/organ master/choir director. At one church the lay person who arranged for me to come by and tune their pianos had passed along the message to have the air conditioning set at the temperature it is set when they worship. While I was tuning, the lady minister walked in the sanctuary and asked me if I was comfortable. It took me a minute or so to understand what she was talking about and I finally commented that the temperature needed to be set for the tuning, not for my comfort. She exclaimed that she thought I just wanted to be comfortable when I tuned. I assured her that it was a bit cool for me, but just right for the piano! I tuned a piano in a small rural church a couple of weeks before Christmas several years ago. They turn their heating way down during the week and turn it back up for their service only on Sunday morning. I received a call from the mother of the pianist in January that the piano was out of tune. She said her son said it sounded terrible the previous Sunday. I arranged to meet with him later in the week and when I walked in, the temperature was cool, but comfortable—about what it was when I tuned the piano—and the piano sounded great! I thought either my hearing is going or that piano sounds just fine. About halfway down the aisle the pianist heard me and exclaimed that the piano sounded great! He said it sounded terrible Sunday. I asked him what the temperature in the sanctuary was like on the previous Sunday and he said it was about like it was then, but when the “old folks” came in they turned the thermostat way up! Problem solved! It’s amazing what a small increase/decrease in the temperature and resulting humidity makes as far as a piano being in tune. Joy! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731/881-1852 FAX: 731/881-7415 HOME: 731/587-5700 From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Cy Shuster Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:17 PM To: CAUT Subject: [CAUT] Overlap of CAUT with churches? It seems that the mission of CAUT overlaps substantially with the requirements of churches: maintaining pianos in an institutional setting (rather than individually owned) -- although I doubt many churches have a full-time tech. Churches have been a big part of my business. They have performance and rehearsal pianos, and have unusual environmental problems, going through seasonal heating/cooling cycles twice a week or more rather than twice a year. Are there specific guidelines for churches? --Cy Shuster-- Boston, MA www.shusterpiano.com North Bennet Street School Class of '06 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/11/35/67/8a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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