Hi, Well it could be worse. You could be living in a community where the tuner for the concert Hall is a price buster. Current prices here run from $50 USD to $97.00. His price is $63.00 without any mileage charge if there are group of pianos. At 07:48 AM 9/18/02 -0700, you wrote: >Yeah, but the client knows that, unlike the plumber, >you are a "non-essential". How would you like to live >here ( Athens, Ga..) where I still must compete with >$40 "tooners" and explain why $75 is justified? >Hardly worth it! > That's why I have focused on very meticulous >restorations for the few clients who care. Doesn't >pay well, but far less frustrating. > Gordon Stelter > >--- Kdivad@aol.com wrote: >> In a message dated 9/18/02 12:33:15 AM Central >> Daylight Time, bigda@gte.net >> writes: >> >> >> > >The national average for a tuning is $75? >> > >> > Man oh man. This really, truly pisses me off, to >> see such an incredibly >> > low figure published as the national average. >> > >> > Is your time worth less than a plumber? A phone >> repairman? a mechanic at >> > a car dealer? >> > A waiter in a fancy restaurant? >> > >> > Mine isn't. I have said for years and years that >> we as a community >> > deeply undervalue our time, our dedication, our >> skill, and our worth. If >> > this figure isn't proof of that, I don't know what >> is. >> > >> > To tune a piano, I drive to the location; I talk >> to the client; I set my >> > self up; I tune the piano; I enter data into my >> computer & generate and >> > invoice; I talk to the client----that's about a >> 2.5-3-hour involvement; I >> > feel I'm underpaid when I charge $130-135.00. If >> there's more work than >> > tuning (which there usually is, with my clientele) >> I charge 90.00 per >> > hour, and feel pretty good about that. >> > >> > Let's honor and support each other, guys. And >> LET'S GET PAID. >> > >> > DAVID ANDERSEN >> > >> >> David, I agree with you that most of us, as tuners >> and technicians, do not >> get paid enough for our skills. The problem is that >> you can't just wish a >> higher pay scale. The price for a tuning depends on >> what the market will bear >> in your area. It is as simple as that. Though a >> little increase in fees >> over a period of time can usually be effective, you >> will still lose some >> customers and if you step over that magic price line >> you will lose a lot of >> customers. >> Our time is worth what we can get paid for it, not a >> penny more. Just like >> that fancy piano that should be worth $50,000.00 but >> in reality will only >> bring $5,000.00. Here in my location the highest >> rates for tuning are in the >> $100.00 range and there are few tuners who get that >> much, the $75.00 range is >> about average. >> To honor and support each other would be to >> understand the problems of low >> pay scale and not infer it is necessarily the tuners >> fault because we >> undervalue our time. Most of the members in the PTG >> and on this list >> understand the problems and participate, not only to >> learn, but to raise the >> consciousness of the public and therefore our value. >> >> David Koelzer >> Vintage Pianos >> DFW >> >> > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! News - Today's headlines >http://news.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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