PTG membership

[Annie Grieshop]

A very enheartening thing happened to me today.  I got a call from a woman
who lives in a city about 40 miles from the microscopic town where I live,
asking me to come tune her piano.  I just happened to be headed that way
today, so I told her I'd stop by and take a look at it, even though I
wouldn't have time to work on it today.

After I inspected the piano, we got to talking about how she came to call
me, when she lives in a city with many piano technicians.  She said that as
she was looking at ads in the Yellow Pages, she noticed that I had a website
and checked it out.  While she was there, she took a sidetrip to the PTG
website and looked around.

She told me that after perusing the PTG site, she thought "These people must
really know what they're doing."  And she then decided not to call a tuner
who had been recommended by a friend... because he's not a PTG member.

Now that is pretty cool, I think, and speaks well of our organization and
the website.  Yea, Ron!  Of course, it also means that I have to do a
bang-up job on her Wurly console -- but since I know (and revere) the RPT
who cared for it for 30 years before she got it, I know it's had good
maintenance.  It just makes me proud to be in the Guild!

Annie Grieshop