prices for tuning in your country?

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Hey Brian,
I wish you would stay up on that box a little longer.
Good points. Not many would be tuning if they did not have that natural
curiousity about them.
I do educate people about their instrument so that some items they can take
careof themselves, like removing the pictures and other displays, and case
parts before I arrive to tune<G>

Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Trout" <grandrestorations@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: prices for tuning in your country?


> Hi Karen,
>
> I've enjoyed seeing where this thread has gone.
> Lots of food for thought.
>
> And to some extent, I can agree that, at least
> for some, hiring the professional to do the job
> can be the best way to go, leaving us to do what
> we're best at.
>
> But...
>
> I can't say that I've followed that practice in
> my personal life, and when I have, there have
> been many times I've been disappointed.  The
> "professionals" don't usually know what we THINK
> they know.
>
> For those who are adventurous enough to get our
> hands dirty and our minds in gear, there's a lot
> of stuff in our everyday lives that we are quite
> capable of.
>
> For an example, my wife's van has had some drops
> of oil on the garage floor over the last couple
> of weeks.  I didn't think too much about it but
> my step-daughter just couldn't leave the subject
> alone since the van was going to "self destruct"
> if she didn't take it back to the place that
> changed the oil and DEMAND that they fix it
> IMMEDIATELY!!  I tightened the oil drain plug
> 1/16 of a turn.  No a drop since.  There's a
> little more to the story, but you get my drift.
> (I'd change the oil myself if she would let me,
> but it has something to do with documenting
> proper maintenance for warranty purposes.  But
> that's not where I was going with this one.)
>
> I could come up with quite a few more examples of
> where the "professionals" didn't really know as
> much as we give them credit for knowing, but this
> post would get awfully long.
>
> My point is that it's really not so hard to do a
> lot of things.  I can fix minor things that go
> wrong on the car.  I can fix a hole in the wall
> where it was accidentally broken.  I can fix a
> ceiling fan that won't run so good anymore.  I
> can put some new shingles on a roof.  And in many
> of those situations, I can do as good a job or
> better than most of the people I'd hire to do it.
>  (AND MY WHOLE POINT IS THAT YOU MAY VERY WELL BE
> ABLE TO, TOO!!!)
>
> (Actually, just this past weekend, I took a
> closer look at the roof on our house.  I was
> shocked to see how bad it was, not because of
> weather, but because of a poor installation.  It
> was done by professionals.  I wouldn't be caught
> doing that poor of a level or work.)
>
> Is it economical?  Maybe, maybe not.  We don't
> want to shortchange ourselves by charging too
> little for our work.  But I can't help but think
> we sometimes shortchange ourselves by not
> believing in our own intelligence and abilities.
>
> If you really don't have the ability or the
> desire, by all means, hire someone who does.  But
> I'll have to tell you, one of the reasons I am
> where I am in piano work is because no one told
> me I couldn't do what I'm doing.
>
> Some food for thought...
>
> (Jumping down off my soap box now.)
>
> Back to work...
>
> Brian
>
>
> --- Kgj38@AOL.COM wrote:
> > I'd rather tune a piano safely on the ground
> > than climb on my roof any day!
> > IMHO, paying someone to do what we ourselves
> > find frightening, repugnant or
> > don't know how to do is worth every penny.
> >
> > Karen Johnson
>
>
> =====
> Brian Trout
> Grand Restorations
> 3090 Gause Blvd., #202
> Slidell, LA  70461
> 985-649-2700
> GrandRestorations@yahoo.com
>
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