List and Roger; The first time I fully realized what a big problem a store has in prep work was when, as primarily piano rebuilders and refinishers, we tried a sale together with a large store. 22 pianos were delivered to us the day before the sale. Excited, I walked up to one, played it a bit and my hands jumped from the keys like a cat off a hot stove. It sounded HORRIBLE. I tried the next, and the next and...... They ALL needed tuning!! And we were tired, we had had to spend days setting our shop up to look like a store, not a rebuilding shop. But I got out my tools and started in, one after the other. During the night, I calculated how much the dealer would have had to pay me to do all that work. He had already spent a goodly sum on the advertising and on the moving. Toward daybreak, I watched the sun starting to rise. I had tuned all night and at least had some sounding ok that people could listen to. Anyone who played any of the others would surely deem that we did not care about how they were prepped. The piano prep work in a store is never ending. You finish one up today and tomorrow two more come in. As Roger says, . With 50 plus pianos in the system at least >1/3rd of them are not prepped at any given point in time. But that is NOT >the >way they leave the store. Floor pianos are in a constant state of flux. And he is right, eventually they get fixed up and shipped out, sounding good and playing well. If only we could find a way to work together more, instead of wasting our energy in criticizing the other guy. Diane Diane Hofstetter 245-M Mount Hermon Rd.#343 Scotts Valley, CA 95066 ph 831-438-6222 fax 831-430-9741 dianepianotuner@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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