<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>As Pogo would say, "Oog"</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE>P { MARGIN: 0px } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My wife, who is not a tuner, asked me "Is that the piano that Fibber McGee tuned?"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Albert Sanchez<BR>Al's Piano Tuning & Repair<BR>215 John Avenue<BR>Greenville, NC 27858-4113<BR>252-757-3023</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pianotuner@embarqmail.com href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com">Alan Barnard</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> Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:24 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> As Pogo would say, "Oog"</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR></DIV>Disney's classic song, "Some Day My Pianotuner Will Come"<BR><BR><A href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4362311798892212010&q=piano&total=300814&start=0&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=9">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4362311798892212010&q=piano&total=300814&start=0&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=9</A><BR><BR>Biggest mystery in the piano business: How can so many talented people--who've spent years and years practicing the piano--have such lousy ears? Especially some music and piano teachers I have met, and a couple of conservatory-trained classicists.  <BR><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem, MO<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>