Goods in Leu of payment

[Farrell]

Let's see...... For a pitch raise and a tuning, I got an Emerson square 
grand in excellent salvage condition. A couple times, for a tuning, I got a 
night's stay at a bed-and-breakfast (on the way to a PTG convention).

Terry Farrell

> Robin Stevens wrote:
>
>>  One of my memorable payments for a tuning was for tuning a Player piano.
>>  When I finished the old man said to me..."I can't pay you"...But, I can 
>> give you a First World War .303 rifle and a violin!!
>>  It suited me fine, as I was into target shooting in my younger days. The 
>> rifle had a good quality target shooting scope. It even had "Mother" 
>> engraved on the butt.
>> As for the violin...I have never used it.
>>  Robin Stevens
>>
> jeez......in 25 years I've gotten maybe a dozen cookies and 4 or 5 
> tomatoes....oh, and an old dehumidifier rod or two, usually with the cord 
> so cracked and brittle that it's unsable.   And once in a great while they 
> write the check for $5 or $10 over what I asked.  --D.N.