This is totally accurate. I sell pianos for a living and the biggest bottleneck in the process of getting them sold and delivered is getting them tuned! I’m in a major city with a big music scene and there are not nearly enough technicians. Most have retired or passed away in the last decade and there are very few young ones to replace them. It’s not necessarily an easy job, and there are different levels of piano technicians. If you take it seriously and get good, there is plenty of money to made. Some of the best around make upwards of $1000 a day.
This is the most accurate comment possible. I would assume even more will retire in the next decade. It’s so important that we have more people step up!
With the advancement of digital pianos (considering better pricing and practicality) and the tendency towards more "appealing" instruments like the guitar, do you see the piano business growing in a struggling economy? Thank you, wishing you the best in your piano business.
@@danielalamilla8080 Yes! Pianos have experienced a huge resurgence over Covid and beyond into 2023. Most dealers around now have never been busier. The advancements in digital pianos have been great since good pianos are becoming more accessible at a lower price point, but still most teachers, students, and musicians still see them as more of a stepping stone to an acoustic instrument. The piano industry is in a great place right now.
what city? Great video also lad. Think Jonny Cash would say that. I'm 3rd Generation Tech. and worked to death. should be able to tune in an hour. Pitch raise 1.5 hr. that way, you can keep up during the Holidays... like Christmas! I can make 1/3 my income, in December. I also install QRS/PD and refinish also, so that adds to it. so Mitchell? who installs players for you? was it Bice? talk to Frank Seta? ex. Baldwin VP, he installed for him too. Great job. total pro. Frank ragged on me to make installs just like his... now. ask Frank. Better than factory. I want me work to look and play like Yamaha. that is what everyone should be chasing, per self players. best wishes Lad! (sorry for my addish remarks).
I’ve been trying to get into piano technology for a few years now but my training opportunities so far have fallen through. It’s inspiring to see how quickly you got started and how successful your first year was. Congratulations!
You. have great energy and vibe, man. I started piano tuning about a year ago. I'm 34 and just starting to consider this as a serious business opportunity. Very inspiring to hear your trajectory, and thank you for being so transparent and honest. Greetings from Pachuca, Mexico.
As a total layperson to all things playing and tuning pianos, I would love longform videos of you tuning. The shorts are such soothing content and I'd love to see more. I don't want this to seem overly familiar with a creator, but just know I'd be very interested. It feels like this type of video could be a Baumgartner Restorations waiting to happen!
I took piano lessons during my 7th-8th grade. Got board and picked up the guitar back in 92 and have been playing since. Here recently my wife bought me a piano about a few months and been back playing since. I find your video’s interesting. Think I’ll hang around and sub.
Thank you for sharing your story and experiences with starting a business and the business you're doing. I appreciate the work and dedication that you are showing. Keep up the videos. One particular part of what you do that is especially interesting to me is the repairs to the piano's Action Stack. I am very interested in it.
I thought you might get a kick out of this, I had a business tuning regulation and repair of pianos many years ago and the name of the business was the piano dr. I had gotten certified on the business and ran in for several years in Orlando Florida. Really enjoying watching your videos now that I'm at age 76 retired and living in Mexico. You do a great job on your work and on your videos, best of luck
Hearing that piano tuners need more hands and help is really ths main motivating factor for me. There's always demand for entry level/low wrung jobs, but its exciting to hear about a new industry that would want to have me!
You're an inspiration Josiah. I've been seriously considering going into this industry, simply because I would love to continue exercising my gift and passion. I've developed perfect pitch over time and I would love to employ the gift. I started playing piano at the age of between 5 and 6 yrs of age and I'm 46 yrs old. My gift of music was dedicated to God by playing 98% of my life in church, playing primarily the piano, but also guitar, trumpet, accordion, bass guitar. I did attend music school to learn to read music at a younger age and I sincerely believe it added to my knowledge of music. I would really like to get in touch with you via email or any other communication platform. Once again Josiah, you're and inspiration and... to crown it all... I learned that you serve the Lord God. Callaway Van Zeeberg South Africa
Thank you for the insights. Love the content. Doing almost the same. Just 10 years older than you are. This video is great. Helpful. Keep up the great work, and please keep the content coming!! 🙏😊
For viewers considering this type of business, a tip from a longtime freelancer: when calculating your take-home hourly income, you have to include several factors beyond appointment and driving time. For example, the time spent on marketing, website upkeep, bookkeeping, social media (part of marketing), data entry, computer maintenance, etc. etc. Also, taxes take a chunk, and self-employment tax is a bigger chunk than on a W-2 because you don’t have the employer match for Social Security. Figuring your effective hourly income is one of the hardest things about freelancing. I don’t mean to discourage anyone but if you’re planning a big leap from a W-2 job and you don’t plan for these extras, they can add up to a nasty surprise on the bottom line.
To be self-employed and be the boss of your own time is priceless. The rest comes by time. And with UA-cam you got an additional income, that is not paid per hour, but per viewer. So it's going to be rock solid.
I'm not a subscriber - and I wont subscribe purely because I know that just hitting the button to hit the button on a channel I don't have too much interest in can hurt more than help - but I will say for the piano tuning shorts, it's not so much the piano tuning I like, but the stories revolving around it. I do however hope that the stories behind your shorts do your goal and inspire people to follow this as a career choice.
ever since i watched ur shorts i realized i wanted to learn how to tune. but not to help other tuners but help me and my familly 1. to start earning money 2. so i can tune my piano myself :)
This is such a well made video, Josiah! Love the format and the educational value you brought to the table! And congratulations on your growing success!
I like the technical aspect of this profession but what got me hooked was the stories behind the pianos and the stuff found inside them. Good luck and hard works I think will grow your business to great heights. I can't wait until the next video.
I love hearing the life story’s of all my customers!! It’s definitely better than the technicals of the piano. Thank you so much for the encouragement :)
I love it! Thanks man. I cannot play the piano, nor am I interested in becoming a tuner, but it's inspirational for a middle-aged man like myself to see a young man like yourself make their way in this world. I'm looking for a new start during my mid-life crisis, so to have the inspiration from you is such a wonderful gift. I love your story and I love your channel. I hope to be able to take a leaf out of your book someday. I am not a religious man, but god bless you.
Amazing video! As an eighteen year old who's been interested in a career in piano mechanics for years, this is super encouraging. I've been trying to veer away from that aspiration for fear I could never actually make a living off of it, so your video is super inspiring. Thank you!
You need to learn supply and demand. You have a trade skill. You can charge the same as electrician and plumber. If a plumber spends 5 hours in your house it's normal for a customer to pay 500 dollars. Boomers are cashing out their stocks and they have the money. It's your time to raise your prices. Charge the federal mileage rate, for going there- and back. Also for pitch raises charge for that gas trip as well. You're losing money by being too nice. you go above and beyond cleaning the pianos and checking every joint. A standard tuning is 100 dollars and for a grand piano often $120. Pitch raises I charge 50% off every time I have to return. So 50 dollars for a pitch raise + plus the gas. So an average pitch raise comes to about $200. Leave a magnet business card with each customer you tune in the home. If you spend 3 hours in some ones house, Expect to be paid 200+ In the city $300+
There is literally no where else for them to go or call so you can monopolize right now. Your smile and good customer service will be what they are paying for most. They will be happy to pay more when they know it's being done right.
You’ve just gained a subscriber. I’ve been considering tuning as a hobby and finding this channel at its crawling stages really sets the foundation on what I consider to do. Can’t wait to see what other content you do plan to include. Maybe as constructive criticism, please do use the technical terms. Some of us like myself would like to learn what each piece is as we are here to learn. I mention this since in one of your videos you mentioned that you don’t want to confuse anyone with the technical terms but I don’t think it’ll be confusing at all. In fact it would help.
My grandfather was a musician and tuned pianos, he was the only one in a 200km radius around here that did it. I have some very dear memories of that time, always bring me to a good place seeing someone tune a piano. Thanks for your work!
Hey, new here but I have some advice to give as a business owner myself. You NEED to be considering driving time and scheduling in your pricing. The time and money it takes to get yourself from job A to job B on a given day adds up a lot. Those sorts of hidden expenses can hit you quickly so keep it in mind mate.
I am a 65 year old guy who bought an old Baldwin L that needed a lot of work. I was a piano major in college and this was my first "nice" piano. I learned how to tune, regulate, repair, etc.because I wanted an excellent playing instrument that was always in tune... plus, I love "historical well temperaments" and didn´t want to pay the $$$ to explore this world. Word got out and now I turn away work. It is a great way to make money and you meet awesome musicians who are SO thankful for what you bring to the table. Thanks for the video. I am sending it to a fantastic young pianist to hopefullly inspire him to learn this skill..... only because he will always have an excellent sounding and playing instrument. And you are correct!!! what you give away always comes back to you!! I also play and tune for my church for free. I believe musicians should be paid, but I am fortunate that I don´t need to money.... it is something that I love!!
I really want to learn how to tune my piano and be able to help others with their Piano cause where I live we don't really have many good piano tuners yet I know many pianist. And I will love to serve others with it. as Christian I love hearing you talk about tithing and giving, it's one of my favorite things to do
Bless your soul, Sir Josiah. It's a breath of fresh air to see a content creator that genuinely likes to grow in spite of their fast rise to "popularity". And it seems that you're really invest a lot to this passion of yours and being perfectly honest without being sound "too braggy". Keep it up, looking forward to your new contents.
Good luck in your buisness. I've been a self employed tuner in the UK since 2013 since being made redundant from the piano shop I'd been working at for 25 years. I started when I was 16 knowing nothing and ended up fully qualified in restoration and running the workshop with 5 people under me. We have the same problem here with old tuners either dying off or retiring. More work for me :)
I'm an attorney but I'm also an A&P IA airplane mechanic and most of my clients own warbirds and some General aviation aircraft as well. I work on T-6 Texans T-28 Trojans 1guy owns a P-51. A lot of the older generation who knows how to work on Radial engines are no longer with us and the younger ones are not interested and not only are parts hard to find for these engines there will be no one to work on them also.
Aye! Im 21 and started tuning full time for myself since this summer and it’s crazy how fast you grow. Never thought I’d be at 3 clients a day with no advertising in under a year, not to mention having the time and now the money to do the fun things I want to do lol. I really wanted to do some of the tik toks you do but just couldn’t find the time haha-are you based out of a big city? Edit 2: I’d love to see more of your logistics. Starting out I spaced myself at a client a day but soon went up to two. I sat there comfortably for awhile but the past month has forced me to go to three clients a day and it’s working but certainly not optimized. I’m curious how you go about scheduling/organizing your clients so you aren’t driving unnecessarily
3 clients a day in a year is crazy good growth! Keep it up!! I have 3 customers tomorrow, and I’m hoping to average that eventually. I’m in a fairly small city, but I still have plenty of customers coming in. Honestly, Gazelle has been a huge life/time-saver when it comes to scheduling clients so I’m not driving too far. It’s been awesome!! They have a free trial too. Let me know if it’s something your interested in because they have a system set up where if you sign up through a link I send I get $100. They offer that to everyone though, it’s not because of my UA-cam channel or anything.
@@PianoDoctor oops I just saw this lol. I’ve always been more of a country gal so I’m curious what a tuners situation would be like not in a giant city haha. Unfortunately I’m already a paying customer of gazelle lol, I’ve been pretty dumb and never used their map tool until recently which makes booking people close to each other much easier.
I tuned my friends' piano, but there's so much more wrong with it than just being out of tune. It would mean the world to me and them if I could just give them an entire piano flip
I was randomly scrolling through my UA-cam and found your channel. After watching this video, I feel so inspired to try this out. You are going to go far in life. Keep it up! I love how you mentioned tithing. God blesses the cheerful giver. God bless you. 🙌🏽
Really proud of you !been a piano turner was one of my dreams but I couldn't reach it.if I get a chance I would be more than happy to be a piano turner even at age 42.
Well, I've been doing it for 50 years and when you realize early in your career that it's your "calling" then you can't do anything else even if the work is so often "feast and famine".
Hey! I’m just starting to learn about Piano Tuning and hoping to get into it in the future, but I was curious what tuning software/app do you use on calls? Or what types of tuners (physical or digital) do you recommend? Love your shorts and it’s such an inspiration to know someone so young is doing this as their job 🙏🏻✨
Question, and apologies if this is a repeat -- I scanned the comments and didn't see anything, but I might have missed something! You mentioned early on that the piano tuning industry needs help, but on the other end of the video you talked about working about 1/5 of a full time job (a full time job is approximately 2000 hours). Do you think there are that many untapped customers in your area to nearly quadruple your customer load? I imagine you're getting some of your info from your mentors -- are they booked up for a long time or something? (I'm basically curious what kind of market analysis you're doing) Also, +1 for the budget and chart addiction. Taking joy in budgeting early on will serve you VERY well, especially as a business owner (it's a shame you don't have access to a 401k with an employer match, but kudos to you for contributing to your Roth!) Lastly, + another 1 for emphasizing charitable giving -- doubly so for religious charitable giving. It's pretty easy to get sticker shock when cutting that check to your church (in fact, I'm getting a little bit of that myself at the moment), but it's pretty important, and not just as a spiritual mandate. Our giving doesn't get much more effective than through the local church!
great video. FYI: the IRS does not allow any professional to take a deduction for services. For example: if you do a piano that you would have charged $150 for-but you do it for free, you cannot take a $150 deduction. Check with your tax advisor. I have had a band for many years, and lots of people wanted me to come play for nothing-saying I could take a tax write-off. My accountant showed me the regulations that disallowed that. I like your commitment to your church and other charities.
Kinda hard to criticize and dislike, especially when all of this information seems very valuable to me. Thank you for this great content and advice. I subscribed today! 😄
Great video - I’m a full time professional piano technician and it’s so great to see a very young person getting into this full time, making videos and just generally letting other young people see this career field is a viable and profitable option! I’m in my 30’s and there are no technicians younger than me in my area, which I hope changes! Keep making great videos, looking forward to following along!
Watching your video brought back a swarm of long forgotten memories. My grandfather, who died 50 years ago, used to “tune“/service/repair organs. He worked for Conn Organs which was, I believe, the largest manufacturer at the time, and traveled the US servicing the big organs like were used in the large churches and sports arenas. I can still remember him visiting us whenever he passed through our town doing some of his routes. This was in the 1960s and they lived about five hours away from us, so it was a big deal to get a visit from him! Keep doing what you love and having fun. That’s the secret to getting through every day!😅
I too am a young aspiring technician who is interested in starting a business. I also took the Piano Technician Academy's piano tuning and repair course. I would recommend them 100%. Your videos are awesome. 👍😎
Thanks for posting this. You're absolutely correct the older generation is ready to retire and there are few skilled piano tuners and technicians to do maintenance and repairs. I could even see a job where a piano tuner / technician was hired by a cruise line as many cruise ships have six to 10 or more pianos per ship. With the number of ships and a record number of cruise passengers I believe there's probably a great need. Good luck and keep those inspiring videos coming❤
11,000? My 1st car I bought was 2100 after fees. Many cars get 30+mpg that are less than 5000. Dont know about anything else in the video, but saving fuel is making more money. Its ironic, going to school, BUT taking a piano course. Long ago, all they did was take the piano course and literally no school, 12 year olds read at a 19th grade reading level WAY back then before the prussian school system started, BUT thats a whole other story. If things were now like they were back then, your business would have started at 16 full time at least and so would every other guy that age. College debt is asinine!🤯
Brilliant video! I've been a technician for 8 years, my father has been doing it for 40 years and retired. You're so right, not a lot of new blood coming into it, so it's a thriving business for those who can develop the skills. You always run into something new and troubleshooting is part of the fun in my opinion. So glad to see a new generation coming into it and we are a tight knit group and love to share, glad to have you on board!
Hi! If you made that income at 18 having just started your own business AND tithing you are doing something right! Congratulations from a father of three successful sons 😉❤️
Thanks! Raising children well is so much more impressive than any amount of money. Congrats! I hope to do the same one day. And thanks again for the compliment
I didn’t really think that I would be interested in watching you tune pianos, but I find myself very interested in your process and really do enjoy watching the shorts. I’m desperately trying to catch up.
Came across your shorts randomly and I just want to say that you’re an amazing young man and you have a passion, an authenticity, and a kindness that’s so rare to find on social media. I love the more in depth videos and enjoy hearing the history of a piano and the neat little pieces of their lives you find intertwined. I wish you so much success and happiness and may you always have the love to continue. Seeing how happy you make others is truly a blessing. ❤
I don't know anything about pianos, and have never heard of being a piano tuner, but I watched the whole video. Super interesting!! Got here from one of your shorts.
Your AMAZING!!!! Love your work ethics, talent, business sense and transparency!! As a professional musician, pianist, organist, harpist and vocalist. After experiencing exactly what you described… finding someone qualified, even available and suffering a traumatic brain injury( falling 25 ft off a ladder and landing on my face!) I decided to learn the skills involved with tuning, repair and restoration of pianos. I had NO idea how difficult, complex and intricate the work is!! You are an inspiration!! Love your honesty and comments on charity and paying tithing😉❤️ Keep the videos coming!!!!🤩
This video was awesome. I hope you continue to make videos about the business side in addition to tuning videos. Also you are in great shape for life! Starting to put money toward retirement at 18 is going to have HUGE benefits. Wish I had a piano to hire you to tune haha. Mines electric.
Thanks! I hope to make videos like this too and encourage other young people to become piano techs. As much as I would like to spend that money, I’m definitely going to leave it there.
Young man 🎉 I am also do tuning and simple repairs for 10 years. I am teaching Piano more than tuning in Florida. Anyway, good luck and I will follow your video UA-cam. You are very smart about Roth IRA !!
i think the background music volume can be slightly lower so we can hear you better but its very minor inconvenience and probably just me , great video!
Hi there. I'm new to your channel. I wonder maybe you could consider doing videos like interview sessions 'Oldest piano technician', 'Female piano technicians in xxxxxxxxx town! And the obstacles', 'Tips given by veteran piano technicians', 'Retired piano technician who survived the World War II?!', 'Longest tuning session' etc., they would be really interesting topics to have a look into and discuss about! =D Yea if you have the time of course =P Thank you so much for taking the effort to do all the UA-cam shorts, it's valuable and so kind of you. Wish you all the best ;) P.S. Seriously I wish I have the ability to tune my own out-of-tune acoustic upright piano =/ though I often tune acoustic double bass by myself before starting any playing session
God's blessings to you and your business. Love your honesty. I thought this video was wonderful and so informative!! Thank you. BTW, what is the name of your YT channel where you play?
Wow sometimes I forget how much goes into starting your own business. It’s awesome to see what goes into it and thank you for all your resources. As a Christian, it’s also very inspirational seeing you share how you give your tithes as well! I know not everyone gives them 😅 I may not be doing piano tuning in the future but this video gave some great insight, so thank you again!
I've looked for piano technicians where I live and only found one. COUNTRYWIDE. I had to learn how to tune my piano four years ago when I bought it (it's a 50+ years old Yamaha) and there was almost no content about tuning pianos, so I really had to figure it out by myself. Lately I've found a lot more content I wish I had access to when I was first learning the basics. So yeah, longer videos like this one are necessary, even the shorts are very helpful and inspiring for me, so thank you for that 😊 I look forward to watching more videos like this.
Piano tuning is not a training job in Germany. Many piano tuners are piano builders. There is a vocational training for piano builders ("Klavierbauer") in Germany. Training takes place for all Klavierbauer in the vocational college in Ludwigsburg. There are about 30 apprentices starting every year. Just in case you are interested (though you cannot just go to that college, you would need to do a full vocational training, i.e. working with a piano builder and then do the college in between). Incidentally, Steinway in Hamburg is hiring ...
Has anything out of the ordinary happen to you, like break a string, or hammer? If so, was it easy to fix? That would be stressful, nobody expects that to happen.
Kudos, Josiah! Sending well wishes from a fellow 'young' piano technician in Northern California. I'm 31, been in business for 2 years now, went through an apprenticeship before that, and am in that same situation of having far more work than I can actually take on. It's been a suprising adventure and a real honor and pleasure to learn, grow as a technician, do good work, and meet and connect with a lot of really wonderful people. Wish you the very best. Major kudos for putting a frame around your work and making content out of it.
Having seen the quality of your work, i honestly do jot care how much uou charge. You are worth every penny and more! I would dearlyblove to have you bring my 1903 Gerard Heinzman back to rights. Finding somtone who wants to work on an old instrument is difficult. Keep up thr good wotk
You are definitely going about it in the right way. I had a conversation with a man who is of retirement age himself recently and his #1 piece of advice was to find a specialty skill, like piano tuning, where the current crop of tuners is on their way out (just as you described), apprentice under one of them and learn a skill that is needed. I think that is a great way of going about finding a career these days. I play the piano myself and I must say that all the tuners I know are of retirement age. What will happen when they are gone? You are certainly filling a need. Good for you and thank you for your videos. I enjoy them very much!
Ive just found you and you are amazing. I will be retiring from my job in the automotive field and this would be a great retirement job.. I will have to consider doing this, Thanks for the info!! I see you deleted a lot of videos, I enjoy the longer process videos..
Thank you for this video. I’ve been tuning my upright that I got a month ago. Totally new to this but enjoying the tuning process and wanting to learn more. Great job!
I was most excited to hear about the $500/month into your Roth - it wont be too long before you're in a high tax bracket and will want to pivot toward a Traditional IRA, youll be really glad you saved those Roth assets when that time comes!
Hey 👋 Josiah, I live in Miami, Florida; is there anyone from the Academy that I can get to tune my house piano? Hasn't been done in years. Enjoy your videos.
Man where do you live? In our area there is not a need for it anymore that I know of. My hubby used to do that, I think he would love to do it again. ❤
I don't give a crap about pianos but I do know when I see a cutie when I see one and you are sure one dam cutie. Muah! Kisses for you Piano Doctor.😘😘😘🥰🌈
In your expenses you didn’t mention your travel costs to get to your customers; car, fuel, maintenance, insurance etc. As for training there’s such a dearth of technicians that my old music faculty started a technician training program. Even for themselves they have around a hundred pianos getting very hard daily use.
I do not want to become a piano tuner. I am fascinated by pianos in general and the mechanical perfection needed to create music. Tools are a capital expense. Don’t forget to depreciate your capital items in your taxes. Also take the allowed deduction for using your car, specific clothing, a percentage of your home or rental as office spaces, workshop, computer, printing paper, etc etc. Enjoyed your video. Takes strong sense of self to strike out in your own.
Well done! I seriously wish I had taken the initiative to do what you've done at such a young age. I also wish my parents had been around enough in my life to have been able to realize how much direction I didn't even know that I needed at the time. You're ahead of the game by simply being someone who's willing to do whatever is needed to be successful and most importantly be patient with yourself and appreciate where you are and what you have, which is actually a lot more than most kids your age obviously. Eventually when I get back on here and have a little more information available to me about a few investments that have been beyond abundantly supportive of my entire family, i'll have to make sure to direct you a little, because when I heard about what you're using as an investment, it suddenly reminded me why so many people aren't making the kind of money from their investments that they should be, but yet still to this day people think those kind of percentages are somehow beneficial, all while their money is actually being drained and not truly gained, while its really just making others rich as their own wealth only grows incredibly slowly. There's an entire world of investments going on that the truly wealthy don't want the public ever finding out about and I'm determined to make sure that changes for everyone, because there's more than enough for all those who are willing to be abundant. 444*
This is totally accurate. I sell pianos for a living and the biggest bottleneck in the process of getting them sold and delivered is getting them tuned! I’m in a major city with a big music scene and there are not nearly enough technicians. Most have retired or passed away in the last decade and there are very few young ones to replace them.
It’s not necessarily an easy job, and there are different levels of piano technicians. If you take it seriously and get good, there is plenty of money to made. Some of the best around make upwards of $1000 a day.
This is the most accurate comment possible. I would assume even more will retire in the next decade. It’s so important that we have more people step up!
With the advancement of digital pianos (considering better pricing and practicality) and the tendency towards more "appealing" instruments like the guitar, do you see the piano business growing in a struggling economy? Thank you, wishing you the best in your piano business.
@@danielalamilla8080 Yes! Pianos have experienced a huge resurgence over Covid and beyond into 2023. Most dealers around now have never been busier. The advancements in digital pianos have been great since good pianos are becoming more accessible at a lower price point, but still most teachers, students, and musicians still see them as more of a stepping stone to an acoustic instrument. The piano industry is in a great place right now.
what city? Great video also lad. Think Jonny Cash would say that. I'm 3rd Generation Tech. and worked to death. should be able to tune in an hour. Pitch raise 1.5 hr. that way, you can keep up during the Holidays... like Christmas! I can make 1/3 my income, in December. I also install QRS/PD and refinish also, so that adds to it.
so Mitchell? who installs players for you? was it Bice? talk to Frank Seta? ex. Baldwin VP, he installed for him too. Great job. total pro.
Frank ragged on me to make installs just like his... now. ask Frank. Better than factory. I want me work to look and play like Yamaha. that is what everyone should be chasing, per self players.
best wishes Lad! (sorry for my addish remarks).
@@danielalamilla8080 in my experience no keyboard has the feel of a piano
I’ve been trying to get into piano technology for a few years now but my training opportunities so far have fallen through. It’s inspiring to see how quickly you got started and how successful your first year was. Congratulations!
While I’m not interested in piano technician. It’s made me deeply think of being a farrier. Thank you so much for the inspiration! 🎉
You. have great energy and vibe, man. I started piano tuning about a year ago. I'm 34 and just starting to consider this as a serious business opportunity. Very inspiring to hear your trajectory, and thank you for being so transparent and honest. Greetings from Pachuca, Mexico.
As a total layperson to all things playing and tuning pianos, I would love longform videos of you tuning. The shorts are such soothing content and I'd love to see more. I don't want this to seem overly familiar with a creator, but just know I'd be very interested. It feels like this type of video could be a Baumgartner Restorations waiting to happen!
I took piano lessons during my 7th-8th grade. Got board and picked up the guitar back in 92 and have been playing since. Here recently my wife bought me a piano about a few months and been back playing since. I find your video’s interesting. Think I’ll hang around and sub.
Thank you for sharing your story and experiences with starting a business and the business you're doing.
I appreciate the work and dedication that you are showing.
Keep up the videos.
One particular part of what you do that is especially interesting to me is the repairs to the piano's Action Stack. I am very interested in it.
Gazelle is life changing. Worth every penny!
100% agree
I thought you might get a kick out of this, I had a business tuning regulation and repair of pianos many years ago and the name of the business was the piano dr. I had gotten certified on the business and ran in for several years in Orlando Florida. Really enjoying watching your videos now that I'm at age 76 retired and living in Mexico. You do a great job on your work and on your videos, best of luck
Hearing that piano tuners need more hands and help is really ths main motivating factor for me. There's always demand for entry level/low wrung jobs, but its exciting to hear about a new industry that would want to have me!
You're an inspiration Josiah. I've been seriously considering going into this industry, simply because I would love to continue exercising my gift and passion. I've developed perfect pitch over time and I would love to employ the gift.
I started playing piano at the age of between 5 and 6 yrs of age and I'm 46 yrs old. My gift of music was dedicated to God by playing 98% of my life in church, playing primarily the piano, but also guitar, trumpet, accordion, bass guitar.
I did attend music school to learn to read music at a younger age and I sincerely believe it added to my knowledge of music.
I would really like to get in touch with you via email or any other communication platform. Once again Josiah, you're and inspiration and... to crown it all... I learned that you serve the Lord God.
Callaway Van Zeeberg
South Africa
So cool. Please let us know more about Your background, if any of these runs in Your family and so on
I really want to get into this. I'm just not skilled enough at piano yet.
Hopefully in a few more years.
Very inspirational indeed. I wish i could have gone in that direction when i left school.
Thank you for the insights. Love the content. Doing almost the same. Just 10 years older than you are.
This video is great. Helpful. Keep up the great work, and please keep the content coming!! 🙏😊
For viewers considering this type of business, a tip from a longtime freelancer: when calculating your take-home hourly income, you have to include several factors beyond appointment and driving time. For example, the time spent on marketing, website upkeep, bookkeeping, social media (part of marketing), data entry, computer maintenance, etc. etc. Also, taxes take a chunk, and self-employment tax is a bigger chunk than on a W-2 because you don’t have the employer match for Social Security. Figuring your effective hourly income is one of the hardest things about freelancing. I don’t mean to discourage anyone but if you’re planning a big leap from a W-2 job and you don’t plan for these extras, they can add up to a nasty surprise on the bottom line.
This was really cool! I would really like more like it!
God blesses his who bless others.
I have heard stories of people who never really receive anything back, but If it doesn’t come in this life, it will come in the next.
Well deserved 💪🏻
To be self-employed and be the boss of your own time is priceless. The rest comes by time. And with UA-cam you got an additional income, that is not paid per hour, but per viewer. So it's going to be rock solid.
Sadly, in my area, the market is glutted with tuners, repair techs, and rebuilders.
thank you. This is extremely helpful
This is really cool!
Well thanks :)
Wow! Congradulation and continue to do what you like. P.S. New subscriber
I think I have not tuned my piano for about 9years lol 😅
we have one and he is 80. we pay $85 when he is gone I don't know what we will do.
Just curious, where are you located?
I think I have a crush now.. damn..
Did you get ever haunted by piano ghost when dealing with the very-very old piano?
I'm not a subscriber - and I wont subscribe purely because I know that just hitting the button to hit the button on a channel I don't have too much interest in can hurt more than help - but I will say for the piano tuning shorts, it's not so much the piano tuning I like, but the stories revolving around it. I do however hope that the stories behind your shorts do your goal and inspire people to follow this as a career choice.
ever since i watched ur shorts i realized i wanted to learn how to tune. but not to help other tuners but help me and my familly 1. to start earning money 2. so i can tune my piano myself :)
It’s very doable! You can totally learn it
@@PianoDoctor i searched for a teacher in my area and found one. Gonna start soon! Thank you so much. Without u this wouldnt have happend
Nice :) I hope u succeed :D
I wish u guys the best of luck and realisation 😁
@@YairCusacovichhas it been successful?
As you should, you know how RARE it is to have this skill. Big time 🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀 can’t wait to see where you’re from! This is huge for the music business 🎼
This is such a well made video, Josiah! Love the format and the educational value you brought to the table! And congratulations on your growing success!
Thanks Grace!
I like the technical aspect of this profession but what got me hooked was the stories behind the pianos and the stuff found inside them. Good luck and hard works I think will grow your business to great heights. I can't wait until the next video.
I love hearing the life story’s of all my customers!! It’s definitely better than the technicals of the piano.
Thank you so much for the encouragement :)
I love it! Thanks man.
I cannot play the piano, nor am I interested in becoming a tuner, but it's inspirational for a middle-aged man like myself to see a young man like yourself make their way in this world.
I'm looking for a new start during my mid-life crisis, so to have the inspiration from you is such a wonderful gift. I love your story and I love your channel. I hope to be able to take a leaf out of your book someday.
I am not a religious man, but god bless you.
Amazing video! As an eighteen year old who's been interested in a career in piano mechanics for years, this is super encouraging. I've been trying to veer away from that aspiration for fear I could never actually make a living off of it, so your video is super inspiring. Thank you!
Amazing!! Thank YOU for the encouragement:)
You need to learn supply and demand. You have a trade skill. You can charge the same as electrician and plumber. If a plumber spends 5 hours in your house it's normal for a customer to pay 500 dollars. Boomers are cashing out their stocks and they have the money. It's your time to raise your prices. Charge the federal mileage rate, for going there- and back. Also for pitch raises charge for that gas trip as well. You're losing money by being too nice. you go above and beyond cleaning the pianos and checking every joint. A standard tuning is 100 dollars and for a grand piano often $120. Pitch raises I charge 50% off every time I have to return. So 50 dollars for a pitch raise + plus the gas. So an average pitch raise comes to about $200. Leave a magnet business card with each customer you tune in the home. If you spend 3 hours in some ones house, Expect to be paid 200+ In the city $300+
There is literally no where else for them to go or call so you can monopolize right now. Your smile and good customer service will be what they are paying for most. They will be happy to pay more when they know it's being done right.
Great advice 🎉
You’ve just gained a subscriber. I’ve been considering tuning as a hobby and finding this channel at its crawling stages really sets the foundation on what I consider to do. Can’t wait to see what other content you do plan to include.
Maybe as constructive criticism, please do use the technical terms. Some of us like myself would like to learn what each piece is as we are here to learn. I mention this since in one of your videos you mentioned that you don’t want to confuse anyone with the technical terms but I don’t think it’ll be confusing at all. In fact it would help.
My grandfather was a musician and tuned pianos, he was the only one in a 200km radius around here that did it. I have some very dear memories of that time, always bring me to a good place seeing someone tune a piano. Thanks for your work!
Hey, new here but I have some advice to give as a business owner myself. You NEED to be considering driving time and scheduling in your pricing. The time and money it takes to get yourself from job A to job B on a given day adds up a lot. Those sorts of hidden expenses can hit you quickly so keep it in mind mate.
Thanks for the input, I will definitely be considering that moving forward
Setting up a business at your age is quite an accomplishment by itself. Keep growing
I am a 65 year old guy who bought an old Baldwin L that needed a lot of work. I was a piano major in college and this was my first "nice" piano. I learned how to tune, regulate, repair, etc.because I wanted an excellent playing instrument that was always in tune... plus, I love "historical well temperaments" and didn´t want to pay the $$$ to explore this world. Word got out and now I turn away work. It is a great way to make money and you meet awesome musicians who are SO thankful for what you bring to the table. Thanks for the video. I am sending it to a fantastic young pianist to hopefullly inspire him to learn this skill..... only because he will always have an excellent sounding and playing instrument.
And you are correct!!! what you give away always comes back to you!! I also play and tune for my church for free. I believe musicians should be paid, but I am fortunate that I don´t need to money.... it is something that I love!!
I really want to learn how to tune my piano and be able to help others with their Piano cause where I live we don't really have many good piano tuners yet I know many pianist. And I will love to serve others with it. as Christian I love hearing you talk about tithing and giving, it's one of my favorite things to do
Bless your soul, Sir Josiah. It's a breath of fresh air to see a content creator that genuinely likes to grow in spite of their fast rise to "popularity". And it seems that you're really invest a lot to this passion of yours and being perfectly honest without being sound "too braggy". Keep it up, looking forward to your new contents.
Good luck in your buisness. I've been a self employed tuner in the UK since 2013 since being made redundant from the piano shop I'd been working at for 25 years. I started when I was 16 knowing nothing and ended up fully qualified in restoration and running the workshop with 5 people under me. We have the same problem here with old tuners either dying off or retiring. More work for me :)
Glad to hear your staying busy. Congrats on the success. There is no better feeling of knowing you’ve worked hard to get where you are.
I'm an attorney but I'm also an A&P IA airplane mechanic and most of my clients own warbirds and some General aviation aircraft as well. I work on T-6 Texans T-28 Trojans 1guy owns a P-51. A lot of the older generation who knows how to work on Radial engines are no longer with us and the younger ones are not interested and not only are parts hard to find for these engines there will be no one to work on them also.
Aye! Im 21 and started tuning full time for myself since this summer and it’s crazy how fast you grow. Never thought I’d be at 3 clients a day with no advertising in under a year, not to mention having the time and now the money to do the fun things I want to do lol.
I really wanted to do some of the tik toks you do but just couldn’t find the time haha-are you based out of a big city?
Edit 2: I’d love to see more of your logistics. Starting out I spaced myself at a client a day but soon went up to two. I sat there comfortably for awhile but the past month has forced me to go to three clients a day and it’s working but certainly not optimized. I’m curious how you go about scheduling/organizing your clients so you aren’t driving unnecessarily
3 clients a day in a year is crazy good growth! Keep it up!! I have 3 customers tomorrow, and I’m hoping to average that eventually.
I’m in a fairly small city, but I still have plenty of customers coming in.
Honestly, Gazelle has been a huge life/time-saver when it comes to scheduling clients so I’m not driving too far. It’s been awesome!! They have a free trial too. Let me know if it’s something your interested in because they have a system set up where if you sign up through a link I send I get $100. They offer that to everyone though, it’s not because of my UA-cam channel or anything.
@@PianoDoctor oops I just saw this lol. I’ve always been more of a country gal so I’m curious what a tuners situation would be like not in a giant city haha.
Unfortunately I’m already a paying customer of gazelle lol, I’ve been pretty dumb and never used their map tool until recently which makes booking people close to each other much easier.
I tuned my friends' piano, but there's so much more wrong with it than just being out of tune. It would mean the world to me and them if I could just give them an entire piano flip
You really inspire, I'm starting to tune pianos and I've already tuned 3
That’s fantastic!! The beginning is the hardest part. Once you get past that, it’s so much fun!
I was randomly scrolling through my UA-cam and found your channel. After watching this video, I feel so inspired to try this out. You are going to go far in life. Keep it up! I love how you mentioned tithing. God blesses the cheerful giver. God bless you. 🙌🏽
Really proud of you !been a piano turner was one of my dreams but I couldn't reach it.if I get a chance I would be more than happy to be a piano turner even at age 42.
Well, I've been doing it for 50 years and when you realize early in your career that it's your "calling" then you can't do anything else even if the work is so often "feast and famine".
Hey! I’m just starting to learn about Piano Tuning and hoping to get into it in the future, but I was curious what tuning software/app do you use on calls? Or what types of tuners (physical or digital) do you recommend?
Love your shorts and it’s such an inspiration to know someone so young is doing this as their job 🙏🏻✨
Question, and apologies if this is a repeat -- I scanned the comments and didn't see anything, but I might have missed something! You mentioned early on that the piano tuning industry needs help, but on the other end of the video you talked about working about 1/5 of a full time job (a full time job is approximately 2000 hours). Do you think there are that many untapped customers in your area to nearly quadruple your customer load? I imagine you're getting some of your info from your mentors -- are they booked up for a long time or something? (I'm basically curious what kind of market analysis you're doing)
Also, +1 for the budget and chart addiction. Taking joy in budgeting early on will serve you VERY well, especially as a business owner (it's a shame you don't have access to a 401k with an employer match, but kudos to you for contributing to your Roth!)
Lastly, + another 1 for emphasizing charitable giving -- doubly so for religious charitable giving. It's pretty easy to get sticker shock when cutting that check to your church (in fact, I'm getting a little bit of that myself at the moment), but it's pretty important, and not just as a spiritual mandate. Our giving doesn't get much more effective than through the local church!
Your attitude is really outstanding for a 18yo. I'm sure you'll be very successfully in the not too distant future.
great video. FYI: the IRS does not allow any professional to take a deduction for services. For example: if you do a piano that you would have charged $150 for-but you do it for free, you cannot take a $150 deduction. Check with your tax advisor. I have had a band for many years, and lots of people wanted me to come play for nothing-saying I could take a tax write-off. My accountant showed me the regulations that disallowed that. I like your commitment to your church and other charities.
Kinda hard to criticize and dislike, especially when all of this information seems very valuable to me. Thank you for this great content and advice. I subscribed today! 😄
Great video - I’m a full time professional piano technician and it’s so great to see a very young person getting into this full time, making videos and just generally letting other young people see this career field is a viable and profitable option! I’m in my 30’s and there are no technicians younger than me in my area, which I hope changes! Keep making great videos, looking forward to following along!
Watching your video brought back a swarm of long forgotten memories. My grandfather, who died 50 years ago, used to “tune“/service/repair organs. He worked for Conn Organs which was, I believe, the largest manufacturer at the time, and traveled the US servicing the big organs like were used in the large churches and sports arenas. I can still remember him visiting us whenever he passed through our town doing some of his routes. This was in the 1960s and they lived about five hours away from us, so it was a big deal to get a visit from him! Keep doing what you love and having fun. That’s the secret to getting through every day!😅
I too am a young aspiring technician who is interested in starting a business. I also took the Piano Technician Academy's piano tuning and repair course. I would recommend them 100%. Your videos are awesome. 👍😎
Is it just me or does he kinda look like Rick Astley?
Dude this is inspirational for sure. Thanks!
Thanks for posting this. You're absolutely correct the older generation is ready to retire and there are few skilled piano tuners and technicians to do maintenance and repairs. I could even see a job where a piano tuner / technician was hired by a cruise line as many cruise ships have six to 10 or more pianos per ship. With the number of ships and a record number of cruise passengers I believe there's probably a great need. Good luck and keep those inspiring videos coming❤
11,000? My 1st car I bought was 2100 after fees. Many cars get 30+mpg that are less than 5000. Dont know about anything else in the video, but saving fuel is making more money. Its ironic, going to school, BUT taking a piano course. Long ago, all they did was take the piano course and literally no school, 12 year olds read at a 19th grade reading level WAY back then before the prussian school system started, BUT thats a whole other story. If things were now like they were back then, your business would have started at 16 full time at least and so would every other guy that age. College debt is asinine!🤯
Brilliant video! I've been a technician for 8 years, my father has been doing it for 40 years and retired. You're so right, not a lot of new blood coming into it, so it's a thriving business for those who can develop the skills. You always run into something new and troubleshooting is part of the fun in my opinion. So glad to see a new generation coming into it and we are a tight knit group and love to share, glad to have you on board!
Hi! If you made that income at 18 having just started your own business AND tithing you are doing something right! Congratulations from a father of three successful sons 😉❤️
Thanks! Raising children well is so much more impressive than any amount of money. Congrats! I hope to do the same one day. And thanks again for the compliment
@@PianoDoctor 😉❤️
I didn’t really think that I would be interested in watching you tune pianos, but I find myself very interested in your process and really do enjoy watching the shorts. I’m desperately trying to catch up.
Came across your shorts randomly and I just want to say that you’re an amazing young man and you have a passion, an authenticity, and a kindness that’s so rare to find on social media.
I love the more in depth videos and enjoy hearing the history of a piano and the neat little pieces of their lives you find intertwined.
I wish you so much success and happiness and may you always have the love to continue. Seeing how happy you make others is truly a blessing. ❤
Kudos to you 👍
You are living the dream 👍👍
I don't know anything about pianos, and have never heard of being a piano tuner, but I watched the whole video. Super interesting!! Got here from one of your shorts.
Your AMAZING!!!! Love your work ethics, talent, business sense and transparency!! As a professional musician, pianist, organist, harpist and vocalist. After experiencing exactly what you described… finding someone qualified, even available and suffering a traumatic brain injury( falling 25 ft off a ladder and landing on my face!) I decided to learn the skills involved with tuning, repair and restoration of pianos. I had NO idea how difficult, complex and intricate the work is!!
You are an inspiration!! Love your honesty and comments on charity and paying tithing😉❤️
Keep the videos coming!!!!🤩
Super inspiring, really encouraged by your faith too.
This video was awesome. I hope you continue to make videos about the business side in addition to tuning videos. Also you are in great shape for life! Starting to put money toward retirement at 18 is going to have HUGE benefits. Wish I had a piano to hire you to tune haha. Mines electric.
Thanks! I hope to make videos like this too and encourage other young people to become piano techs.
As much as I would like to spend that money, I’m definitely going to leave it there.
Young man 🎉 I am also do tuning and simple repairs for 10 years. I am teaching Piano more than tuning in Florida.
Anyway, good luck and I will follow your video UA-cam.
You are very smart about Roth IRA !!
i think the background music volume can be slightly lower so we can hear you better but its very minor inconvenience and probably just me , great video!
It's not just you :)
lets gooooo@@viktoriab4293
Hi there. I'm new to your channel.
I wonder maybe you could consider doing videos like interview sessions
'Oldest piano technician',
'Female piano technicians in xxxxxxxxx town! And the obstacles',
'Tips given by veteran piano technicians',
'Retired piano technician who survived the World War II?!',
'Longest tuning session' etc.,
they would be really interesting topics to have a look into and discuss about! =D
Yea if you have the time of course =P
Thank you so much for taking the effort to do all the UA-cam shorts, it's valuable and so kind of you.
Wish you all the best ;)
P.S. Seriously I wish I have the ability to tune my own out-of-tune acoustic upright piano =/
though I often tune acoustic double bass by myself before starting any playing session
God's blessings to you and your business. Love your honesty. I thought this video was wonderful and so informative!! Thank you. BTW, what is the name of your YT channel where you play?
Wow sometimes I forget how much goes into starting your own business. It’s awesome to see what goes into it and thank you for all your resources. As a Christian, it’s also very inspirational seeing you share how you give your tithes as well! I know not everyone gives them 😅 I may not be doing piano tuning in the future but this video gave some great insight, so thank you again!
I've looked for piano technicians where I live and only found one. COUNTRYWIDE. I had to learn how to tune my piano four years ago when I bought it (it's a 50+ years old Yamaha) and there was almost no content about tuning pianos, so I really had to figure it out by myself. Lately I've found a lot more content I wish I had access to when I was first learning the basics. So yeah, longer videos like this one are necessary, even the shorts are very helpful and inspiring for me, so thank you for that 😊 I look forward to watching more videos like this.
Like your vids from sunny Yorkshire UK, good luck going forward. 440Hz rocks .. .. ..
Piano tuning is not a training job in Germany. Many piano tuners are piano builders. There is a vocational training for piano builders ("Klavierbauer") in Germany. Training takes place for all Klavierbauer in the vocational college in Ludwigsburg. There are about 30 apprentices starting every year. Just in case you are interested (though you cannot just go to that college, you would need to do a full vocational training, i.e. working with a piano builder and then do the college in between). Incidentally, Steinway in Hamburg is hiring ...
Has anything out of the ordinary happen to you, like break a string, or hammer? If so, was it easy to fix? That would be stressful, nobody expects that to happen.
Kudos, Josiah! Sending well wishes from a fellow 'young' piano technician in Northern California. I'm 31, been in business for 2 years now, went through an apprenticeship before that, and am in that same situation of having far more work than I can actually take on. It's been a suprising adventure and a real honor and pleasure to learn, grow as a technician, do good work, and meet and connect with a lot of really wonderful people. Wish you the very best. Major kudos for putting a frame around your work and making content out of it.
Having seen the quality of your work, i honestly do jot care how much uou charge. You are worth every penny and more! I would dearlyblove to have you bring my 1903 Gerard Heinzman back to rights. Finding somtone who wants to work on an old instrument is difficult. Keep up thr good wotk
You are definitely going about it in the right way. I had a conversation with a man who is of retirement age himself recently and his #1 piece of advice was to find a specialty skill, like piano tuning, where the current crop of tuners is on their way out (just as you described), apprentice under one of them and learn a skill that is needed. I think that is a great way of going about finding a career these days. I play the piano myself and I must say that all the tuners I know are of retirement age. What will happen when they are gone? You are certainly filling a need. Good for you and thank you for your videos. I enjoy them very much!
Ive just found you and you are amazing. I will be retiring from my job in the automotive field and this would be a great retirement job.. I will have to consider doing this, Thanks for the info!! I see you deleted a lot of videos, I enjoy the longer process videos..
Thank you for this video. I’ve been tuning my upright that I got a month ago. Totally new to this but enjoying the tuning process and wanting to learn more. Great job!
I was most excited to hear about the $500/month into your Roth - it wont be too long before you're in a high tax bracket and will want to pivot toward a Traditional IRA, youll be really glad you saved those Roth assets when that time comes!
Hey 👋 Josiah, I live in Miami, Florida; is there anyone from the Academy that I can get to tune my house piano? Hasn't been done in years. Enjoy your videos.
I'd like for my apartment complex to have the piano in our community room tuned and fixed. if it was really playable I'd be willing to play it
Man where do you live? In our area there is not a need for it anymore that I know of. My hubby used to do that, I think he would love to do it again. ❤
Excited for you! Good on you for mentioning God!
If you’re able to share what was the advertising course you took?
I don't give a crap about pianos but I do know when I see a cutie when I see one and you are sure one dam cutie. Muah! Kisses for you Piano Doctor.😘😘😘🥰🌈
In your expenses you didn’t mention your travel costs to get to your customers; car, fuel, maintenance, insurance etc. As for training there’s such a dearth of technicians that my old music faculty started a technician training program. Even for themselves they have around a hundred pianos getting very hard daily use.
I do not want to become a piano tuner. I am fascinated by pianos in general and the mechanical perfection needed to create music. Tools are a capital expense. Don’t forget to depreciate your capital items in your taxes. Also take the allowed deduction for using your car, specific clothing, a percentage of your home or rental as office spaces, workshop, computer, printing paper, etc etc.
Enjoyed your video. Takes strong sense of self to strike out in your own.
Take your time to explain in deep, about your dream is awesome... whish you all the best... and tks for sharing
I knew you were that denomination! You just gave off that vibe. In a good way though. Thanks for making this video 🙏
Just to let you know, you made double of what I get from social security at age 68. Not bad kiddo.
You're amazing, but in Sydney, earning that type of money you'd be living on the street 😞
Well done! I seriously wish I had taken the initiative to do what you've done at such a young age. I also wish my parents had been around enough in my life to have been able to realize how much direction I didn't even know that I needed at the time. You're ahead of the game by simply being someone who's willing to do whatever is needed to be successful and most importantly be patient with yourself and appreciate where you are and what you have, which is actually a lot more than most kids your age obviously. Eventually when I get back on here and have a little more information available to me about a few investments that have been beyond abundantly supportive of my entire family, i'll have to make sure to direct you a little, because when I heard about what you're using as an investment, it suddenly reminded me why so many people aren't making the kind of money from their investments that they should be, but yet still to this day people think those kind of percentages are somehow beneficial, all while their money is actually being drained and not truly gained, while its really just making others rich as their own wealth only grows incredibly slowly. There's an entire world of investments going on that the truly wealthy don't want the public ever finding out about and I'm determined to make sure that changes for everyone, because there's more than enough for all those who are willing to be abundant.
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