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Clyde,

Thanks for sharing your service info...it helps put the whole thing into
perspective.  The RCT interests me...do you use it with a Mac? if so, which
one?
     No need to apologize for your cliental...you are making an improvment
in their instruments...thats what counts.

Dan Reed

Dallas Texas Chapter


on 12/30/00 11:37 AM, Clyde Hollinger at cedel@supernet.com wrote:

> Friends,
> 
> So far (11:30 a.m.) the big snow that was to start at 3 this morning has
> yet to bring a single flake to my town.  We might still get some, but
> since I don't need to be out clearing the white stuff off my driveway, I
> did a little research this morning that might interest some of you.
> 
> At the beginning of 2000 I began storing nearly all tuning records on
> RCT.  I now have 686 tuning records.  For what it's worth, here are the
> name brands of the top twelve in descending order:
> 
> Wurlitzer, 95;
> Baldwin and Acrosonic, 83;
> Yamaha, 49;
> Everett, 42;
> Kimball, 33;
> Kawai, 22;
> Kohler & Campbell, 18;
> Lester, 18;
> Winter, 17;
> Gulbransen, 11;
> Janssen, 11;
> Jesse French, 10.
> Those twelve name brands make up about 60% of all the pianos I tune.
> 
> Musings:
> 
> 1.  Only three of those twelve companies (Baldwin, Kawai and Yamaha) are
> still in business, although some name brands are now being used by other
> companies.
> 
> 2.  The piano brands in any given area depend mostly on the brands
> dealers carry/promote in that area.  Local piano dealers have begun
> carrying brands I rarely or never see, including Kemble, Pearl River,
> Petrof, Schimmel, and Young Chang, to name some.  How might this list be
> different for me two decades from now?  (I don't expect to be tuning
> many pianos in two decades; I'll be almost 74.)
> 
> 3.  I suspect a number of you will look at this list and rejoice that
> your list would include many more Steinways and other high quality
> pianos.  I suspect others will wish they just had this many pianos to
> tune.  I probably do about 850 tunings annually.
> 
> 4.  I am basically happy with my position in the piano service world.
> It would be nice to service a more exclusive clientele, I suppose, but I
> like my clients, my clients like me, and the world needs people like
> me.  We can't all care for only the top of the line.
> 
> Other musings having nothing to do with this list are swimming around in
> the back of my head.  I intend to take some time today to update my
> business projections and goals for 2001.  Many blessings to all.
> 
> Regards,
> Clyde Hollinger, RPT
>