Maybe I should see how many tunings I can do on my drive to Kansas City next summer? We could all drive and get every piano in rural America tuned either on the way to KC or on the way back home! :-) I never really though of the possibilities until today... Rob On Oct 13, 2010, at 00:25 , tnrwim at aol.com wrote: > > From Israel > > I don't know how prevalent this is now, but even as recently as the mid 1970s (when I lived in New Mexico, and before I got into the piano business) I heard of so called "route tuners" who serviced mostly rural areas, where there was insufficient population density to support a resident tuner. (I think in our area there was a guy out of Texas who worked New Mexico and southern/western Colorado back then...) > > Back in the early '90's, I did some tuning in Southeaster Colorado and Northeastern New Mexico. At that time I heard about a traveling tuner who served the small towns on the Great Plains. He was more or less like a migrant worker, tuning pianos in the south in the winter moths, and traveling north in the summer. I guess it's not a bad way to earn a living, if you don't mind living out of a camper all the time. > > One time, on my way back to St. Louis, I stopped in a small Kansas town for gas. The attendant asked me what I did for a living. When he heard I tuned pianos, he said, "I've heard about guys like you". I guess he thought I was one of those itinerant tuners. > > Wim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101013/fba0c85b/attachment.htm>
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