[pianotech] basic or full service

[David Ilvedson]

Dave, Dave...back away from the computer...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 3/12/2010 9:30:55 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] basic or  full service


>I too was visited by the archangel of the golden hammer who with
>outstretched finger declared, “you shall be a tunertech and all good things
>will come to pass wherever you may go”.  And after forty years of wandering
>the desert in search of the lost guild, pursued by  Bedouins tugging at my
>frock asking me to tune their golden harps at every oasis I finally gave in
>to my calling and led the minions to the promised land of narrow fifths and
>bottomless well temperaments.  Say hallelujah.  

>David Love
>www.davidlovepianos.com





>Wim, List,

>For some reason unbeknownst to me, paying bills and/or being hungry for
>business has never been an issue in my life. "No brag, just fact." (Will
>Sonnet)
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061259/

>I basically tend to keep the spread between what I owe and what I might make
>far apart from one another. And continue to do so today, even more so. This
>eliminates having to changing tactics, so to speak, as that is my tactic.

>For the record tuning and repairing pianos is a calling for me that happened
>to become a business career. So I really don't understand the concept of
>trying to get business. It just happens where I am. If it didn't happen that
>way, something else would eventually materialize for me to do.

>I do realize that this isn't the case for some where tuning and repairing
>pianos is a business rather than a calling. I also know that there are
>numerous, necessary budget scenarios for others of which I don't certainly
>call into question. Everyone has to work out their own particulars when what
>they are experiencing don't pan out.

>Sincerely,

>Keith McGavern, RPT