Suspicious and Puzzling email - HELP?!?!?

[pianolady50 at peoplepc.com]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Eldon BARBER" <bassooner42 at yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 2:08 AM
Subject: Suspicious and Puzzling email - HELP?!?!?


>I received the oddest email (read below).  In the back of my mind (ok
> the front) these are the spams where they send you a "cashiers check"
> drafted against the bank of bogosity.   Anyone else had the same?  
> 
> -Rick Barber, Morgan Hill, CA
> Assoc, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
> 
> ===================
> 
> Dear Mr. Barber,
>             For a long time it has been impossible to contact a piano
> technician.  Then suddenly two technicians  make contact at once,  one
> on the phone, one on the Net.   The first one, the one on the phone,
> was immediately arranged to do the work.  However, experience has
> indicated the advisability of having more than one man Please, let me
> keep your address in the computer, with proper label,  thus increasing
> the probability of my piano not driving me up the wall.   It might even
> be of advantage were you do drop me an Email once in a while whenever
> it would be convenient for you to service my poor old machine, do an
> evaluation, or possibly recommend a piano that might be on the market.
>             Another item:  Would you possibly know of someone who
> could change the keys on a piano? One would like to have exactly
> alternate upper and lower keys from one end to the keyboard to the
> other. There would be only two shapes for the keys.  All lower keys
> would be the same shape;  and the upper keys would all be of the same
> shape, but different from the shape of the lower keys.  It would
> probably be necessary to purchase a small inexpensive piano for the
> experiment, probably a small one. Alternatively one might modify an
> electronic keyboard, but that does not seem as easy.
>           Wishing you a Happy Holiday, grateful for your response and
> hoping you will always be "on hand", Sir,  I remain,
>                                        YMOS
>         [name deleted]
> 
> 
> 
>