How's business?

[Gregor _]

My business is quite okay. I opened a store with used pianos and new Wendl & Lung (Hailun) pianos here in Germany exactly one year ago (today is my jubilee). In the meantime I do more tunings than without the store. I don´t do rebuilings and only make "ambulant" repairs that do not require to move the instrument in a workshop. Like every year in september the summer slump is over and the high season reliably  beginns. Seems that the economical situation in Europe is still not so bad like in the USA. We had no Ike and are used to high gas prices for years. No idea what the Wall Street trouble brings us here, but I hope it will not affect piano business. I really would like to hear about the business situation from other European collegues: am I just lucky or is it similiar in other European countries?

Gregor

From: pcpoulson at sbcglobal.net
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: How's business?
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:10:38 -0700










In the semi-rural area I live in, with a population 
in the county around that one medium city (85,000+), our economic base has been 
shrinking for at least a year. I noticed a drop - off this time last year, and 
it hasn't improved since then. The drop in the housing market in particular is 
one of the significant factors. Two local furniture stores have closed, and even 
a copy/printing company that relied to a large extent on serving planners, 
developers, and architects. Most of the significant work has been for retired 
piano owners with comfortable retirement situations.
Patrick C. Poulson
Registered Piano 
Technician
Piano Technicians Guild

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