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

Jeannie Grassi jcgrassi at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 26 18:59:05 MST 2011


Ted,
I agree!  And I am offering to help Susan help you.  Whatever it takes!
Yours,
jeannie


On Jan 26, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Susan Kline wrote:

> 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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