<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3059" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">hummmmmmm .......  Well, I've been suckered into tuning just about any imaginable musical instrument, as well as repairing a wide variety of things, from toilet flush valves, to refinishing wooden dash panels in a Jaguar.  But this one takes the cake!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">In the late 70's, I drove a van with "Emerson Piano Service" painted on the sides.  I covered a pretty large territory, more or less, the western half of the state of Oklahoma.  I was about 100 miles from home, tuning a customer's piano when the phone rang.  I was interrupted in my tuning by the customer who told me that the call was for me.  I was quite surprise that anyone would know to call me at this particular time at this customer's number, but I took the phone to see who it could be.  It was the customer's neighbor, across the street who had seen the sign on my van.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">She asked, "Do you work on radios, too."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">I replied, "Radios? Sorry, No, I am a piano tuner."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">To which she said, " But, it's an Emerson radio."</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Frank Emerson</DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:pianoguru@earthlink.net">pianoguru@earthlink.net</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=PIANOTECHNICIAN@aol.com href="mailto:PIANOTECHNICIAN@aol.com"></A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 2/22/2007 11:31:39 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> "Do you tune guitars, too?"</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>In my 27 years as a field technician, I've been asked to "tune the guitar" many times--maybe a few dozen. I've also been asked if I fix violins! Being that I used to play the guitar, I always agree to tune the kid's guitar, but I tell them beforehand that I'm not responsible for a string breaking. I wonder how many of my fellow technicians have thrown in a free guitar tuning along with the piano tuning.                 </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jesse Gitnik</DIV> <DIV>In it since 1980</DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at <A title=http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=http://www.aol.com href="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaol%2Ecom" target=_blank><B>AOL.com</B></A>.</FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>