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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I know where you're coming from on this
one. The piano in the last club I worked at had about 50 cigarette stubs stuffed
between the strings..... as mutes.... for all those strings that wouldn't hold
in tune! Had to return 6 months later to demand instant cash payment after
sending six invoices. Cruise ships and clubs don't seem to like paying up!
Luckily since then the caller ID phone was invented. Strange how it is always
the desperate last minute callers who are the culprits; fortunately I am not
desperate.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>AF</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rnossaman@cox.net href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net">Ron Nossaman</A>
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<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> Friday, November 04, 2011 6:27
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [pianotech] Club work</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>I hadn't gotten one of these calls in quite a while, so
this was a <BR>change of pace. It was in the afternoon, the guy was talking
really <BR>fast, and wanted a piano tuned at a club who's name I missed in the
<BR>torrent of syllables. I was already pretty hammered for the day, so I
<BR>told him I'd lost interest in club work long ago. WHY!!! Well, the
<BR>quality and condition of the pianos, access, noise level, getting paid,
<BR>and working in pitch blackness usually. IT"S MY PIANO!!! IT"S A YAMAHA
<BR>CP-80, AND IS FINE!!! So much for piano quality. IT MIGHT NEED SOME
<BR>REPAIR!!! BUT IT"S QUIET AND ACCESSIBLE, SO WHAT"S THE PROBLEM????? Ok,
<BR>I said, I'm done for the day, and out of town tomorrow. First chance
<BR>I'll have is Friday. AAUGGGGHHHH!!! Click.<BR><BR>Oh yea, I said to
the dead phone, and club work is ALWAYS AN EMERGENCY!!!<BR><BR>Oh
well...<BR>Ron N<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>