

                              RON VAN HOOSE
                        Tuner-Technician - Author
                      4291 Holland Road,  Suite 534
                        Virginia Beach, VA  23452 
                             (804)  499-9151
        
          The Exciting World of Piano Servicing is Waiting for YOU!!
        
                   ***   MALE     FEMALE     ANY AGE   ***
        
        In just WEEKS you can have the ability to:
        
             >    Tune your own piano and save $$$
             >    Enter into a career grossing at least $40,000
             >    Be your own boss - set your own schedule
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                             AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
        
        Commander  Ron Van Hoose served in the U.S. Navy as  an  In-
        strumentalist,  Band  Leader,  Associate  Conductor  of  the 
        United  States  Navy Band in Washington, D.C. and  prior  to 
        retiring in 1980, he served for five years as the Commanding 
        Officer  of  the  Armed Forces School of  Music  in  Norfolk 
        Virginia.  He was responsible for the training of all  Army, 
        Navy  and Marine Corps musicians and bandmasters  worldwide. 
        He holds degrees in Music and Business Administration.
        
        In  1960,  he was the leader of the Navy Band  in  Argentia, 
        Newfoundland.  No piano tuners were available locally so  he 
        took a correspondence course in tuning to keep the pianos on 
        base working for performances.
        
        He continued studying and tuning, first as a hobby and  then 
        as a part time job.
        
        Along  the way, he tuned for Bob Hope, Jane  Mansfield,  Doc 
        Severinson  (tonight  show), Vaughn  Monroe,  Anita  Bryant, 
        Dorothy  Provine,  Les Brown and hundreds  of  lessor  known 
        performers.
        
        When  he left the Navy, he decided to continue in this  very 
        lucrative profession on a full time basis.
        
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                    HOW LUCRATIVE IS THE TUNING BUSINESS?
        
        Before I began writing and teaching, I was tuning 3-4 pianos 
        daily.   The  average rate for tuning in Virginia  Beach  is 
        $45.00  (1991).  This equals an average income of over  $700 
        per week.
        
        After  expenses for advertising, travel, taxes  etc...  that 
        leaves a net of around $500 in real spendable bucks.  
        
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        You probably won't get rich as a tuner, but even if you only 
        tune  part-time while continuing your full time job,  $45.00 
        for an hour and a half of your time surely can help  replace 
        those  hamburgers  with steaks.  Of course, if you  go  full 
        time and work some week-ends and evenings, you could  easily 
        CLEAR over $700.00 a week.
        
        If  these figures seem high, just get out the yellow  pages, 
        call a tuner and ask him/her how much they charge.  You will 
        quickly be convinced.
        
        One  great  feature about this profession is that  when  you 
        tune  for a customer, and do a good job, you will be  tuning 
        for  them from then on.  Since pianos should be tuned  every 
        six  months,  in a very short time you will have  more  work 
        than  you can handle.  What do you do then?  You  train  and 
        hire  additional  tuners.   Your $700 per  week  can  easily 
        explode into $.????.  
        
        Well, this is the end of my pitch.  Did I do good?  Are  you 
        ready to grab your piano and make it sing?  Even if I didn't 
        convince you, you should read through the rest of the infor-
        mation  on  this disk. Then, if you decide not to  become  a 
        tuner,  you will at least have learned a little  about  this 
        old and honored profession (and how we make it pay).
        
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