[CAUT] Sambell's Memoir's (was Neckties R us)

[Susan Kline]

By all means, Ted, bother us with any story you feel like telling. If 
you want help
transcribing or collecting them, I'd be glad to volunteer.

Susan

On 1/26/2011 4:09 PM, Gerald Groot wrote:
> I agree!!  Tell it!  We all need someone else to laugh at...  I told mine...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Busby
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:08 PM
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Subject: [CAUT] Sambell's Memoir's (was Neckties R us)
>
> Ted,
>
> Truly, about any story you could tell would be worth hearing! When I've been
> in your convention classes a couple of times, you've been teaching and
> started telling a story but then you stopped, saying that you were "getting
> off track" possibly thinking that we wouldn't like to hear your story, but
> many of us were at the edge of our seats waiting for such stories! Your
> "memoir's" are priceless. I don't think anyone else in the world has the
> wealth of anecdotes that you have to share of "our" world.
>
> While many "on line" may only want to know the best way to do this or that,
> etc. every now and then a good story about actual human beings keeps me
> connected to why I became a piano technician; It's less about the piano and
> more about the human experience. Please don't hesitate to share.
>
> Most respectfully yours,
> Jim Busby
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Edward
> Sambell [esambell at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 4:40 PM
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Neckties R us
>
> Thanks Avery; it's nice to hear from you. I have my own story too, don't we
> all, but it takes so long to tell I will not bother anyone with it. I came
> as close to complete disaster as could ever be imagined, but it all came
> right. I was tuning for a duo piano concert and knew the pianists well. They
> never knew of the near calamity until I met them many years later and told
> them.
>
> Ted Sambell
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