again?

[Les Smith]

Jim: Remember, things could always be worse! He could be going around
St. Louis, doing, perhpas, less than adequate work on every piano he
can find, and then affixing YOUR CARD to the inside of the piano with
the"Godzilla Glue". :-)

Les Smith
lessmith@buffnet.net

On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, James Grebe wrote:

> Dear list,
> 	At the risk of starting this all over again, I just returned from a late
> afternoon tuning.  It had been a number of years since it (Jesse French
> console) was tuned.  Inside the piano in a conspicuous place was a card
> from a somewhat infamous tuner in my area.  He is infamous because of the
> glue that he uses to plaster his business cards in, on , and around pianos.
>  Many of us in St. Louis have tried unsuccessfully to remove his cards
> neatly but his glue always wins.  He has always been a loner and for a
> while we (in the St. Louis Chapter) heard that he died and we all felt bad
> for a while.  However in just a couple of years he came back to life
> somehow and began tuning again.  So much for the rumor.
> 	 All that was there was the glued card. No tuning dates or anything else.
> Anyway I'll be back to the ladies house in 2..weeks for the  2nd tuning (it
> was -37c).  His card didn't help him in the piano and it certainly conveyed
> no information for anyone.  Some of us swear he would go into institutions
> and plaster his card into any pianos he could find.  It happened in one of
> my regular places.
> 	I wish I could find out what kind of glue he used so I could use it for
> gluing in jack flanges.  :)
> James Grebe in St. Louis
> pianoman@inlink.com
>
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