[CAUT] pin drop

[reggaepass at aol.com]

I'm 53.  Everyone else in my family (wife included) is pursuing degrees at costly music schools, so I expect to be working until I don't wake up one day in order to pay for it all.  Stiffer and lighter tuning levers, palm nailer for stringing, the Edwards action caddy, and lots of assistants should help prolong the agony.


Your Mileage May Vary ;),


Alan Eder


-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org>
To: caut at ptg.org
Sent: Wed, Oct 28, 2009 1:18 pm
Subject: Re: [CAUT] pin drop








>Everyone is getting fatter... 
 

True enough! But maybe the demographic problem is with the 

benches, not the students and profs. Were most of them bought 

at around the same time? Maybe they all are getting decrepit 

and senile at once? 
 

Come to that, aren't most of the piano techs getting decrepit 

and (hopefully not) senile in lockstep with each other? Who is 

going to replace us in ten or twenty more years? 
 

Shall we do a little informal CAUT survey --- how old is 

everybody? Retirements imminent? Plans for how long to keep 

working? (only if you feel like telling us, of course.) 
 

I consider myself just passing through the outer fringe of 

semi-retirement. I've cut back general work about 30%, but 

still do all the concerts. I've started turning down (or 

trying to pass on) work involving tilting pianos, upright 

players still containing player actions, and square grands. 

I do lots of small repairs, some repinning and rebushing now 

and then, but full stringing and parts replacement I pass on 

to someone who does it full time. 
 

Susan Kline, 63 
 

 




 




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