Today's Scary Schedule

[Farrell]

My second one is after lunch! You must be one of those bionic techs that I refer to once in a while. I rarely schedule more than four pianos in a day. Three is perfect. Then again, it is not often that I only tune the piano. Many pitch raises and repairs are done. My average bill is at least 1.5 times my tuning fee. My record is six pianos tuned in one day (with six pitch raises), and it nearly killed me. Maybe I'm just slow. Just all the more reason to develop my shop business! Hey, aim for what you are good at.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G GRAVINA" <ggravina@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: Today's Scary Schedule


> Four pianos in one day?  What are you doing after lunch?
> 
> Jerry Gravina, RPT
> Babylon, NY
> 
> At 07:24 AM 11/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Just looked at today's service schedule: Four new clients. Two spinets and 
> >two old uprights. Several have keys that are "broke". All needing major 
> >pitch raises.
> >
> >AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> >Best make sure I have plenty of glue, plastic elbows, sandpaper shims, and 
> >what else? Oh, duct tape. Is that it? Hmmmm, maybe toss my sledge hammer 
> >in the trunk?
> >
> >Wish I had slept better last night..... It was all that debate about 
> >beveled belly rails and such.  :-(
> >
> >Terry Farrell
> >
> >P.S. Last week I had a two Steinway grands, a Bechstein grand, and a
> >         Yamaha grand kind of day - why can't they all be like that?
> >
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