Those are winners...Wow! I've heard of a tuner who chased the woman of the house around the piano... David I. ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: John Ross <jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org> Received: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:11:59 -0300 Subject: Re: [CAUT] they stayed :o > they _thought_ I slept.... OR Unbelievable But True. >There is one notorious tuner up this way. I have to share a couple of >beauties with you. >He was tuning this piano, and the customer noticed that she hadn't heard a >note in a while and went to check. He was flat out on the carpet sleeping. >Same tuner, an even worse story. Once again the customer noticed no noise in >a while, and went to check, he was having a bath, in her bathroom. >I should have changed the heading to, "Unbelievable but True. >These stories, came direct from the customers concerned, and are not >hearsay. >John M. Ross >Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada >jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Joe And Penny Goss" <imatunr@srvinet.com> >To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> >Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 7:45 PM >Subject: Re: [CAUT] they stayed :o > they _thought_ I slept.... >> Ah ssssssssssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnuuuuuuuuuuuuuussssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnn ><G> >> Joe Goss RPT >> Mother Goose Tools >> imatunr@srvinet.com >> www.mothergoosetools.com >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org> >> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> >> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:21 PM >> Subject: Re: [CAUT] they stayed :o > they _thought_ I slept.... >> >> >>> >>> I was really tired, it's true ... this happened many years ago. >>> >>> I had something to do to the action of a little crummy American grand -- >>> you know the type. >>> I pulled the action, and didn't see a table to put it on. I don't know >>> why >>> I didn't put it on the piano lid -- too heavy? afraid of scratching it? >>> >>> Anyway, I just put it on the floor. Then I think I was checking to see if >>> some wippens were rubbing, or if the backchecks lined up with the hammer >>> tails or something -- I ended up lying on the carpet, looking at it >>> sideways. THEN the owner came in. She thought I was taking a nap on her >>> living room floor. >>> >>> I told her what I was doing instead, but I don't think she believed me. >>> >>> ssssssssnnn >>> >>> >>> At 05:25 PM 9/2/2005 -0400, you wrote: >>> >Many years ago, for lunch I would swing by a Mexican fast food joint >>> >(Naugles) whose shakes, burritos and nachos I was addicted to. Somehow >>> >this combination made me sleepy.....I'd then do the 1:00 PM tuning. >> Often >>> >by 1:30 I'd catch my head bobbing...waking, I'd check to see if the >> client >>> >was around to notice... >>> > >>> >Once my forehead head hit the fallboard...I knew I had to cut out the >>> >Naugles trip. I've since read that that shake at lunch was a guarantee >>> >of an afternoon siesta at the piano. >>> > >>> >No one ever reported any snoring, fortunately. >>> > >>> >It's getting a little sleepy here at the shop...better get back to work. >>> > >>> >Bill S(name withheld to protect the writer) >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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