Susan writes, inre Diane's acquisition of a school account: << You are laying up treasure every time you tune for them. Maybe you should think of it as a savings account, just without interest. >> The gold mine in the school setting is the recommendations from the faculty to their students and the pianists in the community. The foundation is developing a personal relationship with the teachers, and the first thing you have to sell them is yourself. If you do that successfully, you will reap benefits that can almost make the income from the school negligible, ( I said "almost"). Teachers usually enjoy far more credibility than they deserve when it comes to instrument recommendations, but that is the way it is and we need to be mindful of that. They wield inordinate power in the piano playing community. Once they trust the tech, they will be more open to suggestions that may challenge their deeply held, idiosyncratic beliefs. (I have had teachers tell students to clean their ivory with milk, that only left-handed tuners were really able to tune at concert level, that once a piano was tuned to 442 it would never hold pitch at 440, etc.) Maybe we could start a new thread of the oddball things we have heard from piano teachers! Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221322979x1201367215/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072& hmpgID=62&bcd=JuneExcfooterNO62)</HTML>
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