At 11:13 PM 4/8/99 -0400, you wrote: >Do you really expect everyone to jump on your bandwagon and say " Hell yes! >Let's stop working on these pianos that actually need fixing!" >>Bill Simon >Phoenix Hell Yes ! I'm with André 100% ! ! Why should we work on clunkers when we are up our ears in pianos which are of a higher quality. Do you criticize the Mercedes garage for not persueing every repair out there? There is plenty of work to go around, the work I choose is the work I perfer to do. That is why I am not in another line of work, I perfer this one, and consequently have concentrated my workload to pianos I perfer to work on. It was not always that way. I took everything that came along for 20 years, that's where experience is derived. Now that I have that experience, I can be more selective. If I do not want to spot replace broken plastic hammer flanges because the owner does not want to replace the entire set plus the damper flanges, I refer them to a tuner who likes to spend time running around and stockpiling little parts for this. I do not have to leave my house. My shop is here and I have all the work I need from referrals by these tuners for big repairs because they can't do them beacuse they are too busy running around putting out fires. Tuning calls I get I refer to them and I tell the customer that the tuner can also fix that sticky key. I still do "mercy work" as Ron put it from time to time or a trade-in which requires more work than it's worth to make an affordable piano for someone. >If a technician feels a moral obligation to attend to all the pianos of >the world, God bless them. I don't feel that need, just give me a steady >diet of the good ones and I will suffer in silence. >Regards to all, Ed Foote I am not Mother Theresa, I have an obligation to my family to earn enough to keep us out of the poor house and then some. Speaking of which ; . . off to work . . .
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