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<p>Hint...AA<br/><br/>David Ilvedson, RPT<br/>Pacifica, CA 94044<br/><br/></p>
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<hr/>Original message<br/>From: "paul bruesch"
<paul@bruesch.net> </paul@bruesch.net><br/>To: pianotuner@embarqmail.com, "Pianotech List"
<pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Received: 12/7/2007 3:05:50 PM<br/>Subject: Re: Threadbare<br/><br/>
<p align="left">Twelve steps? That'd be twelve HALF-steps, wouldn't it?<br/><br/>Paul Bruesch, BSCS<br/>Stillwater, MN<br/><br/></p>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Barnard</b> <<a href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com"> pianotuner@embarqmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">A third-generation piano tech and retail store owner retired here recently. When I met him he was incredulous that a person with "a degree" (any degree, apparently) would want to do "piano work". <br/><br/>Then again, he kinda came into it as the family business, does not play the piano, etc., so his "motivations" may have been all different.<br/><br/>I've had several careers. From one of them (teaching HS Math) I tell people that I am a recovering teacher. .... Hi, My name is Alan and I'm a Teacher ..... Hi Alan welcome to our meeting, let me explain the twelve steps ... <br/><br/>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/><br/>----- Original message ----------------------------------------<br/>From: "David Ilvedson" <<a href="mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net">ilvey@sbcglobal.net</a>><br/>To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br/>Received: 12/7/2007 4:46:53 PM<br/>Subject: RE: Threadbare<br/><br/><br/>>I've got to admit, I'm wonder why also. Heck driving trains sounds like a lot of<br/>>fun...;-]<br/><br/>>David Ilvedson, RPT <br/>>Pacifica, CA 94044<br/><br/>>----- Original message ----------------------------------------<br/>>From: "Dean May" <<a href="mailto:deanmay@pianorebuilders.com">deanmay@pianorebuilders.com</a>> <br/>>To: "Pianotech List" <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br/>>Received: 12/7/2007 6:39:16 AM<br/>>Subject: RE: Threadbare<br/><br/><br/>>>I was talking with a customer yesterday who asked why I was tuning pianos <br/>>>with an engineering degree. I said I love to fix things, I love music, I<br/>>>love to get out and I love people. Seems like a good combination.<br/><br/>>>Cool looking hotel, I'd love to stop, but I can't get there from here. ;-) <br/><br/>>>Dean<br/><br/>>>Dean May cell 812.239.3359<br/><br/>>>PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272<br/><br/>>>Terre Haute IN 47802<br/><br/>>>-----Original Message-----<br/>>>From: <a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a>] On Behalf<br/>>>Of bunkyaol<br/>>>Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 8:21 AM <br/>>>To: Pianotech List<br/>>>Subject: Threadbare<br/><br/><br/>>> This might be interesting....When I first started tuning in New Orleans<br/>>>about 30 years ago, I purchased a hearse and would back into the clients <br/>>>driveway...This way I only had to schedule one tuning a day, you have no<br/>>>idea how many people would call and ask "did martha die?", and upon hearing<br/>>>what was really going on, they would say, hey do you think he could come <br/>>>over to my house when he finishes you?...The good thing was I could do my<br/>>>commercial customers, ie. bars, hotels at nite prior to showtime and could<br/>>>stay pretty close in the same neighborhood all day...And a hearse stripped <br/>>>out can hold piano tools, parts, donkey, and is itself a traveling<br/>>>shop...and you can purchase them very reasonably....And the magnetic signs<br/>>>on the side...read...Mc Nabb's Keyboard Clinic, "For the life of your <br/>>>piano"..I proceeded to tune the Jazz Fest for the next 30 years as well...I<br/>>>moved to Bunkie, (Home), opened up a retail store, Rebuilding shop,<br/>>>refinishing shop for pianos and antiques, restored and opened a 100 year old <br/>>>hotel, and continue to operated my music business, which is the true love of<br/>>>my life...It's been a great vocation, with which I raised 6 wonderful<br/>>>children, (one's still 13), anybody coming to Louisiana, stop by and say <br/>>>hi......<br/>>><a href="http://www.baileyhotel.com/">www.baileyhotel.com</a><br/><br/>>>Seasons Greetings All, and Happy Yuletides!<br/>>>Tom Mc Nabb<br/><br/><br/>>--<br/>>Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. <br/>>Checked by AVG Free Edition.<br/>>Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.8/1153 - Release Date: 11/26/2007 9:08<br/>>PM<br/></blockquote><br/>
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