Happy Everything Too!

[Leslie Bartlett]

Wonderful- hope that you are going to SELL some, now, not give them away,
and then still have to forage for food!   the conventions might be a
wonderful place to sell them, though there is no one to serivce and adjust
when they go home. That's going to be an ongoing problem. Finding people who
understand our needs is just not simple.  Congratulations, though!  Now on
to bigger (or littler) and better things. Will you give up piano work as
soon as possible?
les

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Diane Hofstetter
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 2:16 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Happy Everything Too!



Here's hoping that everybody's holidays have been just WONDERFUL, and that
the New Year becomes the best one of your life!
 
You probably don't know it, but pianotech was instrumental in changing the
whole course of my life.  Murray had a stroke; I couldn't leave the house,
because he refused to get medical help for a week and he would fall down at
a moment's notice, crashing into furniture, appliances, anything nearby.
During the hours he slept, I started reading pianotech.  I met some of my
best friends there, and re-joined PTG, after a 7 years absence.  
 
When I lay awake at night, ready to grab him before he fell out of bed, I
re-examined what I was doing with my life--and started studying audiology.
Three months earlier we had gone to the convention in KC so our apprentice
would have the advantage of learning from greater teachers than us.  We sold
the earplugs we wore for tuning as a way of trying to defray the costs of us
all going.  There, in Kansas City,  I was stunned to hear the pleas for help
with hearing from many prominent techs.  My father had had hearing problems
develop after he started tuning, but I had never realized it wasn't just
him.  The seed was planted there in Kansas City. Pianotech watered and
fertilized it and today, seven years later, I am finally a certified
Occupational Hearing Conservationist, a licensed Hearing Instrument
Dispenser, AND a piano technician! 
 
It was the wonderful friendliness, willingness to help each other, great
humor, comraderie, and caring of the great people on pianotech that changed
everything.

Thank you all, and Happy New Year.
Diane

Diane Hofstetter



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