Message for Marshall

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi Marshall,
You may have an excellent oppertunity with your wife in the cleaning
business.
Depending of course on the number of her clients she serves and how many
have pianos.
Both of you could go to the house together and work.
The draw back would be two, you would not be able to tell your wife to turn
off the vac
so that you could tune, and you would have to learn to tune with the noise
of the vac.
Always wondered if being hooked up with a realitor would be a good angle.
They see hundreds of clients, but they are thinking of moving when you get
to see if they have an instrument.
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "pianotune05" <pianotune05@comcast.net>
To: <ed440@mindspring.com>; "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: Message for Marshall


> Hi Ed,
> Thanks for the e-mail.  Fortunately, I understand how pianos can go ut of
> pitch and muting, I'm just not quick at it.  I'm sure there are techniques
> that the Emil Fries school could teach me in terms of finding pins etc.
I"m
> going out of town next week to get more hands on with an RPT who has been
> assisting me through e-mail.  I've learned tunig through another excellant
> RPT in Chicago and the Rand y Potter course I hae here as a reference.
I'm
> practicing quite a bit on hammer technique, but I just need to increase my
> speed and develope a quicker method for finding pins, or the right pins
and
> muting.  Right nw, I count the pins and use both hadns as a guide, and
both
> to help find the right strings to mute.  So there's lost time there.  Once
> I'm on the right pin and in the right set, I'm usually fine, but if I
> accidently move the lever, then I have to count all over again and get
> repositioned.
>
> I have nothing agaist Emil Fries school. I think their great!  I'm just in
a
> position where I cannot relocate, place bound as some call it.  If I we
> didn't have my wife's cleaning service which is our source of income a new
> baby, and financial diffiiculties, I might consider just packing up and
> heading west, or North West.  It might take a little longer, but I'm sure
> I'll discover a pattern that workds for finding the pins etc, works in
> speeding up the tuning process.  Fortunately, I do quite a bit of reading,
> gleaning from this awesome list we're on, and the constant tuning
practice.
>
> As for pitch falling, loose tuning pins, cracked bass bridges, cracks in
the
> plate or sound board all can contribute.  Of course that piano being close
> to the front door of the store isn't that great for the piano either.
>
> Well have a great day.  Write again.  Talk t oyou soon.
> Marshall
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <ed440@mindspring.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:53 AM
> Subject: Message for Marshall
>
>
> > Dear Marshall-
> >
> > The impressions I get from your messages are that you can't identify the
> > causes of severe instability in a piano, or don't understand how to
raise
> > pitch, and that you don't understand basic techniques for muting and
> > finding tuning pins.
> >
> > If you really want a career as a piano technician, I believe the most
cost
> > effective path to a good income will be for you to attend the Emil Fries
> > school, which specializes in training people with sight problems.  It
will
> > be worth making a great effort to attend this school.  Then you will be
> > able to begin your career knowing you know what you need to know to call
> > yourself a piano technician, and you will not worry what customers think
> > of you. You will not have to "fake it" because you will know how to do
it.
> > Five years from now you will be earning more, working on good pianos,
and
> > building a reputation that brings you good customers by referral.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Ed Sutton
> >
> >
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