Pitch Raise Fee Structure

[Farrell]

You would pitch raise a rusty 1948 Acrosonic spinet that was 220 cents flat
for 1/2 your tuning fee? You would be looking at three or more passes before
you were ready to tune!

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Pitch Raise Fee Structure


> >From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
>
> >Hi List Again! How do you folks charge for pitch raising?>
>
> 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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