one out of ????

[Andrew Olson]

Here's a good one and a true one:

My mentor and I had been hired to do a complete rebuild and refinish of an
old Packard.  Normally, the two of us do all of the moving ourselves but it
was the peak of tuning and concert season here in our tourist haven.  So, we
hired our local moving company friends who've helped us with a few other
moves.  The owners of the piano were not going to be home when the movers
arrived so the instructions to the movers were "go in the front door- take
the hallway to the left and the second doorway to the right you'll find the
piano."  The movers were scheduled to pick up the piano in the morning.
They called upon delivery of the piano to the shop to let us know it was
there.  At around lunchtime, my mentor went to the shop to find out that it
was a completely different piano than one we were supposed to rebuild.  He
called the movers.  Well, the address was 427 West Redwood Street.  The
movers went to 427 West Redwood PLACE!!!  They two addresses were in the
same neighborhood--which mostly consisted of pre-fab homes-- and apparently
the two homes had a piano in exactly the same location!!  Well, the movers
rushed the piano back to the where they picked it up--no one was home on
either stop.  They went to the OTHER home and picked up the piano.  And the
rest is history.  I still don't know if the owners of the first piano ever
knew that their piano had taken a little "tour" that day.

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
Behalf Of James Grebe
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 6:46 AM
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: one out of ????


I have once showed up at the wrong house, lady let me in and I tuned and
left a bill.  That is when I found out I was not supposed to be there but
somewhere else.  Lady paid bill  and I rescheduled right lady afterwards.
Jim
James Grebe
Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair
Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups, piano benches, writing instruments
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----- Original Message -----
From: "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:58 PM
Subject: one out of ????


> What a WEIRD quirk of luck! I was making my nightly calls to schedule
> tunings when I got a wrong number; I dialed correctly but apparently wrote
> down the wrong numer. Anyway, a lady answered and told me that I had the
> wrong number, and indeed I did. She asked me who I was and what was the
> "nature" of my call. I told her I was calling a client to confirm a tuning
> appointment for tomorrow.
>
> Long story short, she said that she had a piano and could i come to tune
> it. I said yes, and I booked it for the following week! This is basically
> tantamount to picking a name out of the phone book, at random, and getting
> a piano owner who just happens to need a tuning. Now for the real STRANGE
> twist; the lady who answered was NOT at her own home, but just happened to
> be visiting her friend,  who does NOT own a piano...so if HE had answered,
> (which I'm surprised he didn't)  it probably would have just been your
> typical wrong number and that would've been that. One in a million, or
> some high number!
>
> Terry Peterson
>
>
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