[pianotech] Standard Tuning Prices

[David Ilvedson]

Right!   Up goes the value per service....

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Ken Smith" <kensmith at thepianosmith.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 10/8/2009 12:39:56 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Standard Tuning Prices


>Everything goes up, unlike gravity.

>Kenneth Smith / Registered Piano Technician
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>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: David Ilvedson 
>  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
>  Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 2:20 PM
>  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Standard Tuning Prices


>  Instead of lowering you price add more service for the same fee.   Tack on an 
>extra 15 minutes to touch regulation...clean the case...keys...

>  Certainly we should all be vacuuming what's accessible, but maybe a more complete 
>cleaning for no extra charge.   Pedals should be adjusted, tighten bench...

>  David Ilvedson, RPT
>  Pacifica, CA  94044

>  ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
>  From: KeyKat88 at aol.com
>  To: pianotech at ptg.org
>  Received: 10/7/2009 11:21:12 PM
>  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Standard Tuning Prices


>  > 
>  >In a message dated 10/6/2009 7:23:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>  >wimblees at aol.com writes:

>  >My dad's fee for tuning a piano in 1959 was $7.50. Prices, I'm sure, took a 
>  >tumble during the depression, and gradually came back up by the mid 
>  >fifties. (Has anyone reduced their tuning fee during this recession?)


>  >Greetings,
>  > 
>  >      I am considering it right now. Perhaps to the "tune" of $10 lower.
>  > 
>  >Julia Gottshall
>  >Reading, PA