close enough>??

[SUSAN P SWEARINGEN]

I'm a fairly new tuner but I just can't understand how anyone can go over a
piano twice in just an hour.  That seems extremely fast.

You people are speed demons!

Corte Swearingen
----- Original Message -----
From: "David M. Porritt" <dm.porritt@verizon.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: close enough>??


> Absolutely!  I have my rate set high enough that I just absorb that
> kind of thing.  If I can pitch raise and tune in an hour, it's just
> the regular fee.  If I think it will take longer, I'll mention the
> pitch raise fee, give them the little technical bulletin on pitch
> raising and go to it.  After 29 years of doing this, I can listen to
> a few notes, and take note of the piano's scale and know pretty close
> how long it's going to take.  That experience is about the only
> advantage of getting older, but........
>
> dave
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
> On 1/24/2003 at 8:24 AM Susan Kline wrote:
>
> >At 09:02 AM 1/24/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >>Where and (more importantly) _how_ do you draw the line?
> >
> >You estimate how much extra time you will need, and charge for that.
> >If you estimate wrong by ten minutes -- big deal, and you get better
> >at estimating.
> >
> >I don't see that charging for a 2 cents pitch raise is reasonable.
> >
> >First, if it were closer to pitch than that, a lot of people
> wouldn't
> >even think it needed tuning at all.
> >
> >Second, speaking only for myself, I don't like the diddly nuisance
> >of having to explain extra charges to people at all. I'll do it
> >for pianos which are way, way flat; though I'll also explain that
> >we can leave it low and save a lot of fuss and money for both of
> >us, once I establish that having it low won't matter for what
> >and how they are playing. But I don't enjoy splitting hairs
> >with a new customer. "Now I raised it 2.5 cents @ $-- per cent,
> >and I need to adjust the pedal, that will be $--, and there's
> >a broken bridle tape, that will be $---"
> >
> >I just set my fee to assume that some of these things will often
> >need doing, and do them without asking. Why nickel and dime someone
> >to death?
> >
> >Just MHO.
> >
> >Susan
> >
> >
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> Meadows School of the Arts
> Southern Methodist University
> Dallas, TX 75275
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