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<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=4>Why just "What he wrote?" :)<BR>Marshall</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>Are these buttons on your lapel, for pushing. If so let me know, which one not to push. :-)</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>Looking forward to seeing, all the 'listees' from the list.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>Are we going to have a get together as before?</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>We had a meeting of the listers, at Arlington, and Nashville, if I remember correctly.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>Maybe we should all wear a purple glue on sticker to our badge, that way, we would know, who we were.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>It is so nice to put a name to a face, and I haven't heard of anyone getting punched out yet, for what he wrote. :-)</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=joegarrett@earthlink.net href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">Joseph Garrett</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 19, 2006 1:58 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: moi</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=+0>Marshall, Joe has a reputation for being a little crusty and speaking his mind, but he is a vast treasure-trove of piano knowledge and is willing to share it. He's actually quite loveable though never, perhaps, cuddly. Take his convention classes."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Alan et al,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Cuddly I ain't! Crusty?....More like cantankerous.<G> Loveable?....Nah! <G> One word sums it up: CURMUDGEON!<G> (I do it in honor of the original "Curmudgeon", Al Sites.)</DIV>
<DIV>Sorry to say, since I've taken on the job of RVP, I won't be teaching at the National. It goes with the job! Damn! I really do like the classroom thingee! So much to teach/learn, never enough time.</DIV>
<DIV>BTW, I do speak my mind, (what's left of it!<G></DIV>
<DIV>See you all in Rochester....I'm the one with all the buttons on his lapel!<G></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon)</DIV>
<DIV>Captain, Tool Police</DIV>
<DIV>Squares R I</DIV>
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