teacher/tooners

[Ron Nossaman]

> This is a good one.
> Called one of my regular clients last night to schedule tuning, and the 
> Mrs. says that the teacher tuned the piano in Nov. for about $20 after a 
> lesson.
> The teacher also remarked that the reason the piano was so far out of 
> tune was that the pins were low on torque. I had last tuned the piano in 
> Feb. 07. It is a brand new Story & Clark (China) but with solid pins.
>  
> I asked if she wanted me to delete them from my records , and suggested 
> that the teacher stick to areas she knows something about, and that they 
> should not be trusting the care of their piano to an amateur.

Not so. Being paid for your work makes you a professional, 
seems to me. So if a tooning is $20, then the lesson would be 
around $10, at a similar rate, which means that the tooner, 
tooning one out of around 27 lessons (estimated by random 
guess), would have to have... let's see... about 187 lessons a 
week to live in California - give or take, depending, or not.


> Anyone know where I can get a good voodoo doll?

Low mileage used, or custom new? Got a PIN number?
Ron N