Hi Joe, Glad, good to hear from you. I could use the Vac. as my pitch source.:) Actually, there is a lady she used to clean for that has a knobe baby grand that I'm suposed to tune when she's ready. She also asked if I could clean it. The trick is, where to place the action. For some reason, this piano doesn' t have a bench. I could put it on the floor, but I don't want her kis gettig into it. Maybe her dining room table would work if I put paper down on it. Our office cleaning is getting complicated with the baby, our schedule that is. When im out tuning all day and she has to pick me up fo rwork after being with the baby all day, it'ts tough but doable. I'm hoping to tune full time and leave the cleaning behind someday. The ironic thing is, I gave my card to a realtor yesterday who found a spinit in a house that was forclosed on. She's going to call me for tuning. Actually, I e-mailed her about someone who wanted my contact information and then mentioed my abailability. Well have a good one. Talk to you soon. Marshall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe And Penny Goss" <imatunr@srvinet.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:05 AM Subject: Re: Message for Marshall > 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 >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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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