It is even more disturbing to learn later that when selling it to yet another unsuspecting sucker they used something like the line; "we had our piano tuner, ____, look at it and he said it was in great condition. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA del at fandrichpiano.com ddfandrich at gmail.com Phone 360.736.7563 From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Tunethepno at aol.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 9:04 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Reality check...Big Time! I find it mildly disturbing that after I give someone this kind of news, they turn to their spouse and say "Well, we'll just have to sell it." I have, so far, declined to get into a morality debate, but it could happen sometime. John Stroup > On 12/11/2010 1:56 PM, Edward Sambell wrote: > > A friend of mine, who I had taught was asked by a customer, "How > is my > > piano"?. He thought a moment, then replied, "Let's put it this > way > > ma'am. If your piano was a horse, it would have to be shot?. > > > > Ted Sambell > > My father in law used to use that one. I try to say something nice > about > the piano. "It would make an excellent crappie shelter.", or "Get > that > old soundboard out of there, and you'd have one heck of a fine > cheese > slicer." "There's a lot of good BTU potential here, and just in time > for > winter." > > Ron N > > ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101213/bf0aeb82/attachment.htm>
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