[CAUT] they stayed :o > they _thought_ I slept.... OR Unbelievable But True.

[David Ilvedson]

Those are winners...Wow!    I've heard of a tuner who chased the woman of the house around the piano...

David I.



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: John Ross <jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca>
To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
Received: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:11:59 -0300
Subject: Re: [CAUT] they stayed  :o > they _thought_ I slept.... OR Unbelievable But True.


>There is one notorious tuner up this way. I have to share a couple of 
>beauties with you.
>He was tuning this piano, and the customer noticed that she hadn't heard a 
>note in a while and went to check. He was flat out on the carpet sleeping.
>Same tuner, an even worse story. Once again the customer noticed no noise in 
>a while, and went to check, he was having a bath, in her bathroom.
>I should have changed the heading to, "Unbelievable but True.
>These stories, came direct from the customers concerned, and are not 
>hearsay.

>John M. Ross
>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
>jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Joe And Penny Goss" <imatunr@srvinet.com>
>To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
>Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 7:45 PM
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] they stayed :o > they _thought_ I slept....


>> Ah ssssssssssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnuuuuuuuuuuuuuussssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnn  
><G>
>> Joe Goss RPT
>> Mother Goose Tools
>> imatunr@srvinet.com
>> www.mothergoosetools.com
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org>
>> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
>> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:21 PM
>> Subject: Re: [CAUT] they stayed :o > they _thought_ I slept....
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I was really tired, it's true ... this happened many years ago.
>>>
>>> I had something to do to the action of a little crummy American grand -- 
>>> you know the type.
>>> I pulled the action, and didn't see a table to put it on. I don't know 
>>> why
>>> I didn't put it on the piano lid -- too heavy? afraid of scratching it?
>>>
>>> Anyway, I just put it on the floor. Then I think I was checking to see if
>>> some wippens were rubbing, or if the backchecks lined up with the hammer
>>> tails or something -- I ended up lying on the carpet, looking at it
>>> sideways. THEN the owner came in. She thought I was taking a nap on her
>>> living room floor.
>>>
>>> I told her what I was doing instead, but I don't think she believed me.
>>>
>>> ssssssssnnn
>>>
>>>
>>> At 05:25 PM 9/2/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>>> >Many years ago, for lunch I would swing by a Mexican fast food joint
>>> >(Naugles) whose shakes, burritos and nachos I was addicted to.  Somehow
>>> >this combination made me sleepy.....I'd then do the 1:00 PM tuning.
>> Often
>>> >by 1:30 I'd catch my head bobbing...waking, I'd check to see if the
>> client
>>> >was around to notice...
>>> >
>>> >Once my forehead head hit the fallboard...I knew I had to cut out the
>>> >Naugles trip.   I've since read that that shake at lunch was a guarantee
>>> >of an afternoon siesta at the piano.
>>> >
>>> >No one ever reported any snoring, fortunately.
>>> >
>>> >It's getting a little sleepy here at the shop...better get back to work.
>>> >
>>> >Bill S(name withheld to protect the writer)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
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