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[Richard Brekne]

Then DO it !! but make sure you make your services ever bit worth what the
customer pays you for. You will find you can start doing some really
interesting work, loose a lot of the frustration of dealing with willingly
ignorant customers, and live longer as a proffesional piano tech.

kam544@flash.net wrote:

> >Richard,
> >
> >    Not too many tuners "I" know charge $100 per tuning. :-)
> >
> >Avery
>
> And he added, that $40 thou' was:
>
> >>"...after travel expences and the like...
> >>Richard Brekne..
>
> Considering there are approximately 260 business days in a year, not
> counting holidays or vacation, 400 tunings equates to about 1 & 1/4 tuning
> each of those business days.
>
> I could go for that   :-)
>
> Keith McGavern
> Registered Piano Technician
> Oklahoma Chapter 731
> Piano Technicians Guild
> USA

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Richard Brekne
Associate PTG, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway