Pitch Raise Fee Structure

[Stephen Airy]

At 10:12 AM 12/16/00 -0800, you wrote:
>>From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
>
>>Hi List Again! How do you folks charge for pitch raising?>

wow, 30 cents sharp.  Several years ago, we had a new piano tuner, and I 
noticed he brought our then-7?-year-old upright down like a half step, or 
at least 50 cents.  We had been tuning it regularly at least every year.  I 
am still wondering how it got so sharp so fast.  We live in Southern Ca.

>I like to keep things as simple as possible...for me AND my customer(s). 
>If a piano is, on average, more than 6-8 cents flat, I charge 1/2 my 
>normal tuning fee--period. That means no matter how flat the piano is, in 
>most cases the aforementioned applies. I usually never have to do more 
>than one PR to get it into the "ballpark". I even did a pitch "lowering" 
>recently and still charge the 1/2 tuning fee. It was more than 30 Cents 
>SHARP! Of course I try ALWAYS to schedule a follow-up tuning in 1-3 
>months, explaining that the PR will leave the piano in somewhat of an 
>unstable state, and should be tuned within that time frame to help insure 
>stabiltiy. The vast majority of my customers (who's pianos need PR's) get 
>the point. I also make it a habit to leave with them printed material 
>explaining PR more specifially, and the need for more frequent tunings. i 
>think they sincerely appreciate the extra time we take to help them to 
>understand their instrument, and thus appreciate the neccesity to maintain 
>it as well.
>
>Terry Peterson
>Associate Member PTG
>Los Angeles, CA
>
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