the economy

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

On 10/10/08, Gregor _ <karlkaputt at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Richard asked an interesting question: how many pianos do you tune per day
> or week? Terry, was it a joke or do you really tune up to 30-40 tunings a
> week? Looking to the smilie I assume it was a joke.  Usualy I try to limit
> it to 3 tunings per day, but in the high season (christmas time) I have to
> do 4 appointments.........



In a way I'm not in this, as I'm a college tech, but then again I
_could_ tune as many as I wanted to each day. When I started here,
back in '81, I did just that during what I call "bulk tuning season".
(pre-semester)  Tune in about an hour, 8 hour day, do the math...

In '87 I had carpal surgery on both wrists.

I now consider 4 as a normal day, but have had gusts up to a dozen
when adding in high school contests. I credit an ETD (mine is
Cybertuner) for making that possible. BTW, I'm on the cusp of 63, and
don't plan on slowing down.

-- 
Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT
Luther College
Decorah, IA