I have nothing against anyone, who starts out tuning his own piano, no matter how. It doesn't take them long to find out there is more to it than they thought. In some cases it will be more business for you, broken strings, mistakes etc. Oh, yes. And let's not forget tuning pins that have had their corners rounded by the ratchet-drive socket (which ALMOST fit the pin!) used by the curious party who decided to "tune" it themselves. I mean, "What could go wrong?" Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: John Ross <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Mon, Mar 15, 2010 11:35 am Subject: Re: [pianotech] TuneLab as an IPhone App When I started out, I took the correspondence course, that was from what I have learned, the worst one there was. Initially, I was only intending to do my own piano. My Daughter's music teacher talked me into doing his, then some students, then a music store. It was part time at first, but blossomed into a full time career. I have been to approaching 20 conventions, and learned a lot from PTG. When I dropped the university, I had tuned for 19 years. I took a year off from that, and was encouraged to apply again, so this is my 20th year, and I am looking forward to next year. I think you will find that there are quite a few, who started out not thinking it would turn into a career. Oh yes, after I had done quite a few by ear, I was not satisfied with the end result, so I bought a SOT. It allowed me to give a tuning that the customers liked, and I from the beginning, have never called anyone, to say it is time to have your piano tuned. They call me. Tooners, will drop by the wayside, but the serious ones will become tuners. I have nothing against anyone, who starts out tuning his own piano, no matter how. It doesn't take them long to find out there is more to it than they thought. In some cases it will be more business for you, broken strings, mistakes etc. Just as a matter of interest, how did you first become involved in piano tuning? Was it a school like North Bennett street in Boston, or a good correspondence course etc. John Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia. On 15-Mar-10, at 2:40 PM, Michael Magness wrote: I had an interesting conversation with a customer the other day. I was tuning his old upright for his 10 year old daughter who plays rather well for her age and takes lessons. When I stopped for a short break to discuss the condition of the piano he showed me the TuneLab app available on his IPhone for $300. He said he remembered seeing it when he was looking for something else and wondered if it was anything like my CyberTuner. I told him I thought it was rather similar but I wasn't that familiar with it. He said he just thought it was interesting, that he wouldn't want to purchase it plus the other items necessary and try to use it, since he could see there was a skill level involved. My thought after I left was how many yoyo's out there won't be that thoughtful and become tooners via this avenue? Mike -- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com = = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100315/56239ac5/attachment.htm>
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