Mark, I hope you submitted this for the "Tooner Tales" book. Avery >A few years ago I was tuning for a woman I knew who had just moved to a >newly-built home. There was no lawn and it was quite muddy. I was careful >where I stepped going in, and it turned out the piano was across a wide >expanse of white carpet. With the customer watching, I again checked the >soles of my shoes, which were very clean, and then walked over to the >piano and started working. She seemed happy. > >A telephone man came in about 20 minutes later. He started taking his >boots off. The woman said, oh don't bother. He said, I'd feel better if I >did, and proceeded to take them off. She said, well, it didn't bother >bigfoot over there, and jerked a thumb in my direction. > >You can imagine how I felt. I kept tuning, and another 20 minutes or so >later I heard a snort from the other side of the piano. There was a huge >Old English sheepdog sleeping there. It turned out his name was Bigfoot. > >Mark Graham _____________________________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4893 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu _____________________________________
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