recommendations for piano buyer

[Wimblees@AOL.COM]

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In a message dated 7/18/01 5:15:59 AM Central Daylight Time, 
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:


> All by yourself? Or do you have employees, or sub out most of the work? 
> Please help me. I'm getting overwhelmed by a feeling of inadequacy right 
> about now.
>  
> Terry Farrell  
> 

It depends on what you call "all by your self." Tunings I do all by my self. 
My wife does tune, but at the most 3 pianos a week. Most weeks she only tunes 
one, and she'll go 2 or 3 weeks without a tuning. Now that I don't have a 
store any more, I set my own appointments (my business phone is forwarded to 
my cell phone during the day, so I have very few calls to make at home in the 
evening.). In the evening I do my own paper work. 

I guess it is the rebuilding that gets you. I don't do my own refinishing. I 
contract that out. I don't make my own bass strings, or bore my own hammers. 
But the rest I do myself. 

I schedule three or four days a week for tunings, then the other days in the 
shop. (sometimes I do a combination of shop and tunings, it just depends on 
who wants their piano tuned on what day). I do work 10 hour days, and most 
Saturdays. Now that I don't' have a store any more, I only work 2 Saturdays a 
month. 

I am known to be a very fast worker. My employees, (when I had them) and 
colleagues in the business, are amazed at how much I get done in a day. It 
generally takes me about 45 minutes to tune a piano. I can string a piano in 
about 6-8 hours. That's with the pin block in, and everything ready to go. 
But it does include tightening the coils, tapping the hitch pins and bridges, 
and one chip tuning. If I have time, and I'm up to it physically, I can even 
hang a set of dampers and give the piano a tuning before I quit for the day. 

I hope I didn't overwhelm you, but, yes, it is possible to bring in the kind 
of money I mentioned. But you have to work very hard to be able to do that. 
The other thing is, I love my job. Occasionally, as I am tuning a lousy 
spinet, I think about doing something else. But then when I get done, and the 
customer thanks me for making here piano sound beautiful, I get over that 
feeling, and happily go on to my next appointment.

Wim


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