Fw: Fw: Bill Stegeman

[Paul Chick (EarthLink)]

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I receied this letter from a fellow chapter member about the late Bill
Stegeman.  I have found out that Bill worked a lot with teaching aural
tuning.

Paul Chick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald L Miller" <tuner6@juno.com>
To: <tune4@earthlink.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Bill Stegeman


> Dear Paul,
>
>         I got your message about Bill Stegeman.  I would like to tell
> you just a little about my experience with Bill.  I'm sure some of the
> other members of the chapter would have similar stories.  In 1965 I wrote
> to the national chapter of the PTG asking them about schools of piano
> tuning.  They wrote back saying that I had one of the best piano tuners
> in the country only 40 miles away and advised me to contact him.  I did
> and he invited me down to his basement where he pulled out his electronic
> tuning trainer.  He had me tune octaves, fifths, fourths etc. and then
> replaced the cover on the trainer and said, "You can tune pianos."  That
> was the first of many times I was reminded that Bill was a man of few
> words and many deep thoughts.  Over the years we became good friends, and
> he was the mentor that enabled me to make a living in the piano tuning
> business.
>
> The local chapter as well as the national PTG will miss this wonderfully
> helpful individual.  We are all  privileged  to have had this man live to
> be 94 years old.
>
>                                                 Don Miller