In need of some encouragement

[Avery]

At 01:50 PM 9/8/2006, you wrote:
>About an hour later she calls back and had to cancel as the 
>administrator told her unless the charge was $50 or less per piano 
>they would not pay for it.  That is almost half the going rate so I 
>lost the 3 piano tunings.

I can't help but wonder what HIS salary is? Probably over $20,000 a 
year!!!!!!!! Ya think?

Avery

>JAMES
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "David B. Stang" 
><stangdave at columbus.rr.com>
>To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
>Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 11:57 AM
>Subject: In need of some encouragement
>
>
>>Friends,
>>I'm feeling a little bit discouraged for two reasons.
>>
>>First, I am really struggling with my aural temperament tuning. I 
>>understand intellectually how it is supposed to fit together, how 
>>all the intervals ought to beat, and so on. But I have been 
>>practicing at home and at customers' homes for a few months now, 
>>and I still just can't do it right. By "do it right" I mean get it 
>>close enough to pass the RPT exam (I use my ETD to test myself). My 
>>main problem, I think, is, I just can't always hear the beats. For 
>>instance, I can nearly always hear the F3-A3 Major 3rd, and the 
>>F3-D4 6th. But I struggle to hear the A3-C#4 and especially 
>>struggle to hear the C#4-F4. I can't percieve those faster beats. 
>>And sometimes I can't hear the beating even when it's supposed to 
>>be slow. Sometimes the 5ths and 4ths are loud and clear; other 
>>times they are not there at all. Are my ears the problem? Is it my brain?
>>
>>Second, I am discouraged with my business. I could use some more 
>>customers. I have gotten every kind of marketing advice imaginable 
>>- that's not what I need. I am unhappy because I am kind of shy, 
>>and I just don't do some of those assertive things that many 
>>business people do. It doesn't come naturally for me to sell 
>>myself. (Like my friend Jon Ralinovsky who was just e-ridiculed on 
>>this list, for simply posting the link to the Cincinnati Seminar 
>>without tooting his own horn about the good stuff he has lined up!) 
>>Maybe I don't have the right personality to run my own business.
>>
>>Any words of wisdom would be appreciated.
>>Thanks
>>
>>David B. Stang, 2/3-rds of the way toward RPT
>>Columbus, Ohio
>>
>>
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