Customers ask "how bad is the tuning?" (or something to that effect). I measure the A on my SAT. If it measure -35. I tell them the piano is 35% out of tune. I then say that pianos that are tuned on a regular basis are at most 5% out of tune, and because your piano is 35% out of tune, I first need to do a pitch adjustment to stabilize the piano. I equate it to getting a patient stable prior to surgery. Most of my customers understand that concept. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician 94-505 Kealakaa Str. Mililani, Oahu, HI 96789 808-349-2943 www.Bleespiano.com Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Marcel Carey <mcpianos at hotmail.com> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Thu, Mar 11, 2010 5:29 am Subject: Re: [pianotech] "premium" vs. price Maybe we should rethink the term "pitch raise" and replace it with "pitch correction". It could then be major pitch correction or minor pitch correction. For customers that don't know, I often use the paint analogy: It takes more than one coat of paint if you want to change color. Marcel Gardez le contact. Obtenez la version mobile de Messenger ici = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100311/6981b125/attachment.htm>
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