Held "Hostage" by Tiny Lookerson

[Michael Magness]

On Feb 12, 2008 3:47 PM, Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

>  I've walked out of homes when I discovered I was alone in the home with a
> child.
>
> No friggin' way. Uh, uh. Not today sir. I'm outta there! See ya!
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Michael Magness <IFixPianos at yahoo.com>
> *To:* Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:04 AM
> *Subject:* Held "Hostage" by Tiny Lookerson
>
>
> I've tuned for the family for over 30 years, they had 5 natural children
> and adopted 2 from Korea the girl Cindy at age 9 and a year or so later
> Timmy at age 3. Cindy it turned out was a piano Phenom and the whole family
> became accustomed to waking in the morning and going to sleep at night to
> the sound of her playing the piano. They began with an old upright, moved on
> to a new Kimball artist console which after a year needed heavy regulation
> from the hours a day she spent playing. I advised them to get a more "heavy
> duty" piano, a studio, which they did.
>
> I was there to tune in mid-winter and Timmy was in the house alone, home
> from 1/2 day kindergarten. Dad's Transmission shop was just across the road,
> a dirt country road that they lived on the end of. Timmy and I talked when I
> arrived and when I took my mid-piano break but then I was done, I left the
> bill on the piano, packed my toolbox and set it down next to the wall and
> went around the corner to use the bathroom. I came out and no toolbox to be
> seen, I was certain I had set it there, I asked Timmy if he had seen it, he
> shook his head. I began looking around for it and found it several feet from
> where I knew I had left it, behind a recliner chair. I looked at Timmy and
> asked did you move this here? He paused a moment, then he nodded, I
> understood then that he was lonely there by himself, glad to have some
> company and tried to keep me there as long as possible. So I stayed a few
> more minutes with him and got him settled in front of the television. I
> was amazed that he managed to move that toolbox it must have weighed as much
> as he did about 45 pounds! He was always small for his age. The next time I
> was there his mom was home and I told her about it and she was amused and
> amazed that he would do such a thing.
>
> Oh yeah, he has his own 1 year old now and is 23.
> Mike
> --
> We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?
> Michael Magness
> Magness Piano Service
> 608-786-4404
> www.IFixPianos.com <http://www.ifixpianos.com/>
> email mike at ifixpianos.com
>
>
This is Wisconsin, rural Wisconsin, we're a friendly, trusting bunch here.
I've had many appointments where the kids let me in after school to get
started and mom gets home 1/2 hour to an hour later. I have other customers
I've never met, I just happen to know which door isn't locked to their house
or where they hide the extra key. I never suggest working in an empty home
or arriving when the kids are there without mom but if they do, sure why
not, I sit down at the piano and I stay there!!!! The kids can do what they
please, I'm busy doing my job! I have an appointment for a week from
Thursday to tune the piano for a new customer, her college age daughter will
let me in and probably leave before I'm finished. All in a days work!


Mike

-- 
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?
Michael Magness
Magness Piano Service
608-786-4404
www.IFixPianos.com
email mike at ifixpianos.com
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