At 02:22 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote: >I tune hard listen soft, but at times I'll find myself tuning soft >in a noisy room nursing home, then I'll snap out of it and get to >work and forget what others think. I walked over to our piano on >Sunday after church and played the three pivital tones/thirds a few >times back and forth to check the tuning and my pastor got all over my case. Just curious but why? >I keep telling him that the piano is a little out of tune, not much >but enough to be bothersome. some unisons are out etc. The guy that >regularly tunes it uses an ETD Sanderson I believe. He starts on one >end goes up and then does unisons. That tells me he's not an aural tuner. No one that is would tune a piano that way. Except for a pitch raise! Avery >Marshall >----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery" <avery1@houston.rr.com> >To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:06 PM >Subject: Re: What's a fair price to charge for tuning a piano > > >>Because he tuned very softly (used to working in a store and not >>bothering the customers/salesmen! >>Couldn't hold up to university piano students for 15+ hrs. a day! >> >>Avery >> >>At 01:45 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote: >>>Why didn't his tunings hold? >>>Marshall >>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery" <avery1@houston.rr.com> >>>To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> >>>Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:23 PM >>>Subject: Re: What's a fair price to charge for tuning a piano >>> >>> >>>>At 01:15 PM 2/9/2006, you wrote: >>>>>At 01:01 PM 2/9/2006 -0600, you wrote: >>>>>>Conrad, >>>>>> >>>>>>Unfortunately, there's a store here in Houston that will only >>>>>>pay $15.00 for a store tuning. And damn it, there are tuners >>>>>>here who will do it for that! :-( >>>>>> >>>>>>Avery >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>I got $12.50, but that was in '79. I could fill my gas tank for >>>>>$5 then. Those tooners all on foot? Sleep under bridges? >>>>>Shopping carts for tool kits? >>>>Actually, no. But two of them that I know of are blind. IMO, I >>>>think they're afraid to say no to that price for fear of losing >>>>the work. One of them used to tune our "lease" pianos but the >>>>tuning wouldn't last 'till he got out the door! Now I'm doing >>>>them for that price because I got tired of having to redo them >>>>anyway. For free! At least I don't have to go anywhere. He >>>>actually had a driver he had to pay! >>>>Avery >>>> >>>>>Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician >>>>>Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 >>>>>1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076 >>>>> >>>>>- Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score, >>>>>- Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap. >>>>> >>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >_______________________________________________ >Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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