---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment All I think ever ones business will vary from location to location. Biz will also vary depending on whether you do in home service or just rebuilding. I like the comments about diversification.We experienced a few downs the biggest one being most of 2003 but we still got by. The time before was about 3 months in 1998 when I had to lay off a main worker. Overall this has been a great year for rebuilding & not bad for the service end. I don't do much outside work but my brother handles much of that & he did well. At this time of year we are grateful for the care & concern of friends & family & a faithful creator As Willis Snyder always says aim for the high end. Prosperous new year in all ways & not just monetary Dale Erwin There is good news and there is bad news from this end. I am Down from last year on appointments by 25% but only down by 7.5% financially, which means that profitability is actually UP. The one challenge we are going to have to address is the onslaught of the digital piano. Traditional piano dealers are selling more of these now than the real thing. I always try and put my customers off buying them by saying that they lose their value very quickly, just like computers because they become outdated (obsolete) within a few years. I also tell them that they will soon become tired of the sound of a digital piano (at least I do) "listener fatigue" and all that. I can only play a digital piano for about half an hour and have to switch it off. Have any of you ever analysed the tuning on a digital piano: it's terrible. The temperament is not very smooth at all and even the unisons aren't all that great. However I do suspect that if they were tuned the way we tuners would like them to be tuned, they probably wouldn't sound like pianos at all! Any other ammunition with which to bombard the onslaught is welcome. Looking forward to another year. Burp ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/37/67/0c/37/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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