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Newsletter June, 2005 |
Paul Eccardt - President, Michael Slavin - Vice President, Paul Keogler - Treasurer, Marty Dinerstein - Secretary
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The General Meeting
This month's meeting will be our year-end dinner party, to be held on Tuesday
evening June 14, 2005 at 7:00 PM. Due to the great success of our Holiday
party and the very positive response, the party will again be held at:
George Washington Manor
1305 Old Northern Boulevard Old Roslyn Village (516) 621-1200 The full-course dinner is $38 per person (including tax and tip) with a cash bar. There will be a choice of more than a dozen entrees; fillet mignon is an additional $5. Please send your reservations / payment to our treasurer: Paul Keogler c/o Dancing Ivories 11 Washington Avenue Bay Shore, NY 11706 We hope everyone will plan to attend. Proper casual attire is recommended. See page 3 for the map. It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Tom Sheehan, a long-time member of the New York City Chapter. Note of interest: The cover story of the June 6, 2005 Newsweek magazine is "How to Keep your Hearing," an important article for all of us as piano technicians to read. |
Minutes of the May Meeting
The May meeting of the Nassau PTG chapter was held on May 10, 2005. The meeting started
at 7:30 PM. Six regular members and one guest attended.
A secretary's report was read by Paul Eccardt, and the minutes were accepted
as read. The treasurer's report was read by Paul Keogler and accepted.
The dinner committee reported that our June party will be at George
Washington Manor in Roslyn on June 14.
Lenny Genovese also brought up the item for discussion of changing the name
of the chapter to the Ernie Juhn Nassau Chapter. The chapter will research the
possibility of doing this.
The business meeting ended at 7:45 PM.
Our technical was by Paul Keogler. Paul discussed the costs involved in
running a business. We must assess all our costs, including our own salary, rent,
advertising, insurance, transportation costs and materials, to name a few.
Our prices should reflect the time involved in doing the job and the
overhead costs.
He stated that we should involve the customer in our pricing, by explaining
that our price depends on the pitch of the piano and whether it needs a pitch
raise and also whether there are broken parts and location in terms of our
travel time.
Paul also mentioned that we should factor how much time we spend in office
work and other things related to but not included in the tuning, such as
parking costs and any reports or billing.
This was an excellent, well prepared technical and we thank Paul for giving
us the benefit of his experience.
by Marty Dinerstein - Secretary |