This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Thought some of you might be interested to read an article in today's = St. Petersburg Times newspaper about John Ragusa's job tuning pianos on = a cruise ship. I don't know how many of you know John, but he is a 20+ = year experienced and well respected piano technician in the Tampa Bay = area. He directed (I don't know exactly the title PTG give these folks) = the KC Annual PTG Convention a few years back. He was the first one at = our local chapter I talked to about joining the PTG, some years back = now. It is a typically uninformative article about piano tuning/service work = in general and touches a bit on the ship environment. I guess that is = typical for any newspaper article that deals with anything technical. = But it has a couple OK pictures - worth checking out for something a bit = different! http://www.sptimes.com/2004/12/07/Floridian/The_Tampa_tuner.shtml I've been servicing the pianos on the Carnival cruise ships in the Port = of Tampa for several years now. I currently have two ships - the 855 ft. = Inspiration and Carnival's newest and biggest, the 963 ft. Miracle (the = Miracle is the largest ship to have sailed under the Sunshine Skyway = bridge at the entrance to Tampa Bay). The Inspiration has five Yamaha = C3s and the Miracle has eight shiny new Yamaha C3s. It's an interesting gig. I enjoy it a pretty fair bit. I enjoy getting = away from junk pianos every once in a while! ;-) Terry Farrell www.farrellpiano.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/89/3a/0a/45/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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