Ptich Raises (was World's Worst Tuner)

[Barb Barasa]

Well, I like to do the tuning right away so as not to leave the piano
sounding awful.  My customers appreciate me quite a bit since many of
them HAVE had a previous tuner say the piano could not be tuned to
pitch, or could not be done in one day to pitch.  I just tell them
the truth: I have to do one rough tuning/pitch raise of the whole
piano just to get it close enough to stay, and then do a regular
tuning.  I charge about half my regular fee for the PR.  If having it
up to pitch is important to them, they are thrilled.  But this is
just my personal preference.

Barb Barasa
Ashland OR

The
> customer may not appreciate the extra work involved with the job. The
> customer will not appreciate the work if you can do a good job of
> pitch raising and fine tuning in an hours time. A good technician can
> make a relatively difficult job seem easy. And it is to some of us.
> But, since it is not so easy for many technicians, and many
> technicians will not even attempt a pitch raise all at once, to be
> competitive the good technician might pitch raise the piano and say
> to the customer he will return to fine tune the piano after it has
> adjusted to the higher tension (which in many cases is not necessary)
> so he can more easily be appreciated for the extra work and the
> customer will feel more at ease with the extra expense.>