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color=#0000ff>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?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>les</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
[mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Diane
Hofstetter<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 31, 2007 2:16 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Happy Everything Too!<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><BR>Here's hoping that everybody's holidays have been just WONDERFUL,
and that the New Year becomes the best one of your life!<BR> <BR>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.
<BR> <BR>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! <BR> <BR>It was the
wonderful friendliness, willingness to help each other, great humor, comraderie,
and caring of the great people on pianotech that changed
everything.<BR><BR>Thank you all, and Happy New Year.<BR>Diane<BR><BR>Diane
Hofstetter<BR><BR>
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