Leaving Darwin

[Brian Trout]

Good luck, Tony.  A move of that size can be a little scary.  But I have a 
feeling there are good things waiting for you that you haven't seen yet!  
:-)

Have heard that Adelaide is a beautiful part of Australia and would love to 
visit your part of the world sometime.

May your move be smooth and trouble free.

Take care.  Be well.

Brian T.







>From: "Tony Caught" <caute@bigpond.com>
>Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Subject: Leaving Darwin
>Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:49:12 +0930
>
>Hi List,
>
>After 18 years in Darwin Australia it is time to move on so in two weeks 
>time I am leaving Darwin and going to Adelaide which is 3,000 K south.
>
>The hard part is that over that period you build up a clientele of friends 
>as well as customers (intermixed) and knowing that the only other piano 
>tuner ? in town is in it for the money only and can't do his job anyway 
>makes it even harder. I have, in Darwin over 700 customers that I have to 
>say that I will come back a couple of times to keep everything going and 
>hopefully another respectable tuner will come to town to look after it.
>
>I am moving to Adelaide to start all over again which is quite a daunting 
>task at the age of 64 but it is also exciting to be going back to where 
>pianos are not steam baked in our super tropical climate. Its going to be 
>an experience to work on and tune pianos that are in a relative stable 
>climate again. (I might even remember what it is like to tune a piano in 40 
>minutes again).
>
>So if I have been a little terse with some of you may understand that I 
>have been confused about many things for some time however, this list is 
>the closest thing I have had to guild meeting of piano tuners or just 
>companionship from fellow trades persons that can joke (hopefully only 
>occasionally) but carry on conversations, in and out of the trade, that are 
>worthwhile.
>
>Naturally I am carrying on as a subscriber but for the next few weeks I 
>expect to be rather busy.
>
>Look after
>
>Tony
>


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