>The messages in this thread certainly shows a remarkable variety of "full days" from 3 or 4 to 15 - 18! My view of the high numbers is probably skewed by a guy I know who can do 15 pretty regularly. His end result is not to be confused with a concert tuning nor actually even a decent console tune-up. I'm sure that many of you who do the high daily numbers do very good work I just can't keep up with that pace. My personal record is 10 in a day. That was 5 each in two schools (little driving) and the pianos were tuned twice a year and all were P22s (easy to tune). That was also many years ago when I was considerably younger! How do you manage that many tunings in a day? dave< To the Daves (Porritt and Love) - I certainly couldn't keep up that pace on a daily basis. My 83 tunings for October consisted of 4 days of 8 (basically once per week), 1 day of 6, 3 days of 5, 2 days of 4, 4 days of 3, and 5 days of 2. The days I do 8 are the days I drive up I-35 to northern Iowa. I'm not going to drive 2 hours, do 3 pianos, then turn around and come home. I get to bed early the night before, have my lunch/supper packed, get up at 6:30 and am on the road by 7. I start at 9 in the morning with the tunings scheduled an hour and 15 minutes apart. Back home at night by 9:00. Not my favorite way to spend the day, but it helps pay the bills. The days with 2 or 3 tunings are much more relaxed. Today I'm spending the morning in the shop, then I'm off on a 15 mile drive to do 2 church pianos after lunch. Piece of cake. Chuck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091031/e74939f6/attachment.htm>
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