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[David Ilvedson]

I've got to admit, I'm wonder why also.   Heck driving trains sounds like a lot of fun...;-]

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Dean May" <deanmay at pianorebuilders.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 12/7/2007 6:39:16 AM
Subject: RE: Threadbare


>I was talking with a customer yesterday who asked why I was tuning pianos
>with an engineering degree. I said I love to fix things, I love music, I
>love to get out and I love people. Seems like a good combination. 

>Cool looking hotel, I'd love to stop, but I can't get there from here. ;-)

>Dean

>Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 

>PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 

>Terre Haute IN  47802

>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
>Of bunkyaol
>Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 8:21 AM
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> This might be interesting....When I first started tuning in New Orleans
>about 30 years ago, I purchased a hearse and would back into the clients
>driveway...This way I only had to schedule one tuning a day, you have no
>idea how many people would call and ask "did martha die?", and upon hearing
>what was really going on, they would say, hey do you think he could come
>over to my house when he finishes you?...The good thing was I could do my
>commercial customers, ie. bars, hotels at nite prior to showtime and could
>stay pretty close in the same neighborhood all day...And a hearse stripped
>out can hold piano tools, parts, donkey, and is itself a traveling
>shop...and you can purchase them very reasonably....And the magnetic signs
>on the side...read...Mc Nabb's Keyboard Clinic, "For the life of your
>piano"..I proceeded to tune the Jazz Fest for the next 30 years as well...I
>moved to Bunkie, (Home), opened up a retail store, Rebuilding shop,
>refinishing shop for pianos and antiques, restored and opened a 100 year old
>hotel, and continue to operated my music business, which is the true love of
>my life...It's been a great vocation, with which I raised 6 wonderful
>children, (one's still 13), anybody coming to Louisiana, stop by and say
>hi......
>www.baileyhotel.com

>Seasons Greetings All, and Happy Yuletides!
>Tom Mc Nabb