Isn't our *bottom line* the essence of the Japanese proverb: Promote happiness. The money will follow. I think the question is now where we feel most comfortable promoting the happiness. There are technicians who prefer rural livingrooms over big city concert stages. And there are concert techncians who enjoy the occassional livingroom, and so on. I for one love working on concert stages, especially in historic theatres ... but one of my favorite clients is a very poor family with what is probably the worst piano in my customer base. They knew from the start that it was the cheapest of the cheap, but it was what they could afford. I've always done what I could for that thing to make it workable for an unusually talented son to practice on without blowing out the family budget. The other day I got a message from the son -- he is "going for broke" and getting a vastly superior piano, perhaps later this month. His question to me was would I continue being his technician? Of course and I'm flattered! Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ---------- From: cjbond@geocities.com To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: low quality, and high quality Date: Saturday, April 10, 1999 10:32 AM >>snip<< I've "revived" many a piano to the delight of low-income owners who couldn't be more thrilled their child can take piano lessons. >>snip<< I like the challenge of fixing these pianos. Everyone has their own little niche to fill in this business. There's plenty of room for all our areas of interest without having to criticize each other. Julie B.
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