S&S Hammers

[Ron Nossaman]

>Attending the conventions would be nice, but that is quite costly and my
>income from piano tuning and repair is quite limited. 

Terry,
Aye, there's the rub. The point in a tech's career when convention
attendance will do him the most good, is when it's least affordable. It's a
universal rule. If there's any way at all you can swing it, you will learn
"stuff" the first year that is worth ten times what it cost you.
Eventually, there is a point of diminishing returns, and you may come to
feel that what you learn may not have been worth the price (Maybe only
three times what it cost you), but I guarantee that the first three or four
Nationals you attend are each worth the sum total of your professional
existence thus far.

Sell the dog and do it.

Ron N