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Old 13-March-2008, 02:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Root View Post
Do you have a "real" number to use as a check? Or is the "real" number
irrelevant? I would think the number would be impossible to know unless
(as I suspect) piano tuners have to be licensed in NYC, and you can
look up how many licenses are current.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis
Well, you know that the number can't be greater than the population, and only a fraction of the populuation has pianos, and you don't need a tuner for each piano. As a first cut, I'd say perhaps 1 in 10,000 would be a piano tuner. So, say under a thousand. I don't know much about pianos, but I can think of things to check to refine that. Then again, I could look in the phone book.
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