Three different kinds of piano tuners

I often have to engage piano tuners to tune the piano in my home and studio and also for my gigs.

There are three kinds of piano tuners.

One, is able to fool most home piano owners, but not professional pianists like me. They service the domestic market and so they make decent money doing a mediocre job tuning many pianos and just do the minimum for the customer, if not less.

Two, there is the piano tuner who tunes the piano well...meaning that the piano is in tune. Technically speaking...even if you check with a tuning oscilloscope, they tune the piano "perfectly". I sometimes use these tuners.

Three, there is the piano tuner who not only gets the piano in tune but also get the piano to "sing" and make the harmonics and the fundamentals dance to create a 3-dimensional sound which allows the pianist, if he plays well, to stimulate not only the ears, but also his heart & soul and that of the listener.

These three types of piano tuner are metaphors for the three types of workers we are, or workers who work for us. Any type of worker, even musicians.

We need to ask ourselves, in our own chosen profession, are we like piano tuner no. 1, 2 or 3? I think that we need to approach our work like piano tuner no. 3.

We will probably make more money because people who love quality often don't mind paying more for it; but even if we make less money during the rough times, we will still be happy about doing our work because we love it and are passionate about it.