How's business?

[Fenton Murray]

I can say that it's about as dead as I've seen it here on the central coast of California in 10 or 15 years. That being said, I've managed to keep busy by tuning and servicing pianos that normally I would not seek out. I've had to fish a little further from shore and not throw back the little ones for fear of catching my limit. I haven't reconditioned an upright action in a while, but I'll take them now, I'm doing a $1500. Kimball grand action recondition. I'd kind of like a belly job but they take me so long and I work so hard on them I'm enjoying the break. All in all I'm making just about the same as I have the last couple years, I'm just hustling a little more. I think we have a great business that somehow manages to weather the storms. In boom times I never get rich, either.
Fenton
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Willem Blees 
  To: Pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 5:39 PM
  Subject: How's business?


  If it weren't for my prescheduled appointments, my business would be next to nothing. I've only had one prescheduled appointment cancel on me, but other than that, the phone just isn't ringing. Considering today's Wall Street collapse, except for, of course, the Gulf states, how's business on the rest of the mainland? 


  Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
  Piano Tuner/Technician
  Honolulu, HI
  808-349-2943
  www.bleespiano.com
  Author of 
  The Business of Piano Tuning
  available from Potter Press
  www.pianotuning.com

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