---------- > From: A440A@aol.com > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: RE: Tuning Prices > Date: Wednesday, August 27, 1997 1:39 PM > > Prices? > The FTC enforces the laws governing restriction of trade, monopolies, > and price fixing. As long as I don't encourage others to either lower or > raise their prices, or enter into collusion to effect the same, I am not > guilty of any illegal activity. From this standpoint, Big Brother can go > take a hike! I hope we are not so intimidated by our government that we > cannot communicate the details of our business. > In Nashville, the stores offer tunings that are around $55, some of > the private technicians here are starving while they hope to attract > customers with a $35 price, ( but I so often hear of them also telling every > customer that they get that "much more work is needed". ) I know of three > independants that charge $75 for tuning, and one that has recently moved to > $80. > My tuning fees are > 1) recording studios that are regular customers $88 ( even if I am in every > day) > 2) private homes that are regular customers $ 95 > 3) First time visits are usually 50% more, ( I like to tighten & clean pianos > before I tune them for the first time) > 4) Rough tuning for pitch raises are charged at $1.00 per minute ($ 60 per > hour ) and usually take 20 minutes. > 5) The school tuning, ( at Vanderbilt) is $65 each ( I only tune the concert > instruments now, and they are often tuned two or three times a week) > > I was recently in a rural area, in the deep south, where there is really only > one tuner in the region, he charges $90 for anything, grands or spinets, and > he is usually booked 3 weeks to a month in advance, doing four pianos a day! > > I would be curious to hear from others as well. > Regards, > Ed Foote > Precision Piano Works > Nashville, Tn Dear list, When I started out here in St. Louis in June of 1962 tuning prices charged by Aeolian Co. of Mo. was $10.00 in the city and $12.00 in St. Louis County. I wonder what the current interpolation would be for the inflation we have had since then. I earned $1.25/hr in their piano shop starting out and the established fellows were making $125.00 per week. When I quit them in 1972 I was making $3.60 /hr and left to rebuild pianos for a used piano dealer for $5.00 /hr and thought I was really stepping out. How times change. James Grebe RPT from St. Louis pianoman@inlink.com > >
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