JIV-jumping into voicing

[Avery Todd]

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But "maybe" you'd already been there & forgot! :-D Sorry, couldn't resist!

Avery

At 01:33 PM 11/13/05, you wrote:
>Dale, David,
>
>  A participant posed the question (he wasn't convinced of my idea, 
> I think):  "So, what do you do when you walk in and find a ___ 
> brand of piano, the tuning is good, the voicing is good and the 
> regulation is good?"  The answer, "Raise your standards."
>
>Well, I could go on...  ;-)
>
>Barbara Richmond, RPT
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:david@davidandersenpianos.com>David Andersen
>To: <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>Pianotech
>Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 11:38 AM
>Subject: Re: JIV-jumping into voicing
>
>  That said the goal is for an improved tone even if , in your own 
> ears, it's not perfect. People/clients who really have ears to hear 
> will except any improvement as a pleasure in the right direction. 
> Truth be told there are sooo many lousy sounding pianos in the 
> field because no one is asking the questions you are or at least 
> not bothering to stab a few needles etc to risk for something possibly great!
>  How I wish the bad habit of tune & run to the next tuning could be remedied.
>  It's not real customer service IMHO.
>   I think I just changed the topic. Oh My!
>   Dale Erwin
>
>
>
>Great words.  In 25 years of working on pianos in LA, with the last 
>10 or so years mostly dedicated to good and expensive grand pianos, 
>the number of pianos that had been maintained in any realm beyond 
>tuning before I came on them was, and is, miniscule....1 or 2 
>percent, literally.  What a joke.
>And a tragedy, really, for our profession.  All this talk, endless 
>talk, about pianos, and service, and how to do this and that with 
>pianos, and then the harsh reality:  almost nobody's actually doing 
>it in good grand pianos in LA. Why?  Because "tune & run"  is the 
>easy money. A no-brainer.  The average guy here charges 
>$100-120.  Do six tune-and-runs a day, and you're living large.  Do 
>it five days a week, and it's 3 grand a week, and baby's got a new 
>pair o' shoes.
>
>On the other hand, just shoot me now if that's what I have to look 
>forward to: average clients, piano after piano in bad mechanical and 
>tonal shape, and propagating the paradigm of "I don't give a rat's 
>ass, so why should my clients?  Why should I educate them about tone 
>and touch when it'll just slow me down, make me work and acquire new 
>skills, work new muscles, and (the final nail in the coffin:)
>'anyway, none of my clients care or can hear or feel the difference.'"
>
>What a crock of s**t.  Everybody can hear and feel the difference, 
>including, first and foremost, YOU.
>
>Don't be a sellout.  Learn how t work on pianos past the tuning, and 
>quit telling your self destuctive things, like nobody can hear or 
>feel the difference....quit being so dang negative.
>
>End of rant.  Thank you.
>
>David Andersen


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