To start with, thanks for all the happy b-day greetings! This thread has interested me because it has always seemed to me that each additional year in my life makes it better and better-- as opposed to conventional wisdom that it's "H---to get old". So I started keeping track of peoples replies (besides the original question was something like "what is the average age?") So, here are a few of the facts that I gleamed from the age and experience replies on the pianotech list: The "Youngest Award" goes to Kristinn Leifsson who is 21 and has been tuning for three years already! The "Eldest Award" goes to Dick Beaton who is 84 and has been tuning for 25 years (I wonder what he did in his "previous lifetime"?) Two techs responded who are in their 20"s Three are in their 30's Thirteen in their 40's for a total of 18 who are in the first decade of their lives. Twenty are in their 50's One in his 60's Two in their 70's and One in his 80's for a total of 24 in the second decade of their lives. So far no one has responded who is in the third decade of their life :-) Commmm_on all of you who have held back in replying to this thread! The most common ages of respondents are 47 and 54 at five techs in each group. The years of experience has been harder to track because a number of folks have not included that info. However it appears that the largest number of us started 22 to 25 years ago (10 techs) with all the others being fairly evenly spread out from 1 to 37 years. I wonder what happened 22 to 25 years ago that caused so many of us to start tuning pianos? Baby boomers finally finding their path? Inflation? Job losses? I've enjoyed all your replies. Diane ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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