List - In 1958 when the draft snapped me up and sent me to Germany, the Stars and Stripes (the military newspaper) ran an item on my tuning pianos. A dental technician picked up that issue and wrote asking if I tuned for civilians also. A couple of weeks later I picked up my tuning kit and trundled off to the railroad station, managed to negotiate a change of trains in the big city of Darmstadt, and was picked up at a little station by a relative driving a Goggomobil - a little car I later learned was nicknamed "Hustenbonbon" (Cough Drop). This car, I was told, had a centrifugal clutch which caused us to lurch forward as the driver gunned the engine after every stop. And me holding my heavy kit in my lap as there was no other place for it. Bill Maxim, RPT
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