<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>A funny story with a valuable theme.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm tuning a piano at an elderly clients home, and the phone rings.</div><div><br></div><div>It's for you the lady says, it's for the piano tuner.</div><div><br></div><div>Who could it be? My wife does not have my schedule anymore. It must </div><div>Be an emergency and she went digging in the computer for it.</div><div><br></div><div>I take the phone and a lady at the other end would like to book a piano tuning.</div><div>I ask "Ah, are you a friend of client x",..no.</div><div>"A neighbor "...no</div><div>"Do you have my business phone number and web coordinates.."..no, isn't this the piano tuner.</div><div>"Yes, I am tuning mrs x, piano, but how did you get my clients number."</div><div><br></div><div>She replies, the number was in the piano, is this 1888 Lorraine Avn.</div><div>Why yes, that is where i am, but that is my clients house; I'm confused.</div><div><br></div><div>Well she says, your address and phone number is on a business card in the piano.</div><div>Ah, I ask, when is the last time you tuned the piano.......nearly 30 years ago.</div><div><br></div><div>My client, overhearing the growing confusion says, "ah, when we moved here 25 years ago,</div><div>The previous owner was a piano tuner and had passed away, we acquired his phone number."</div><div><br></div><div>What are the chance of her calling to book a tuning, 30 years later, at the very hour I arrive</div><div>At that house to tune a piano.</div><div><br></div><div>Moral of the story.......every business card you leave in a piano may be doing overtime for you </div><div>For decades to come. </div><div><br></div><div>30 years later.</div><div>What are the chances, eh.</div><div><br></div><div> Cheers</div><div> Dave Renaud</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 2012-03-25, at 6:19 PM, Thos Carpenter <<a href="mailto:cathomas1003@qwestoffice.net">cathomas1003@qwestoffice.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>A FINE TECHNICIAN</div><div>Thos. Carpenter - Piano Technician</div><div>303.684.6766</div><div><a href="http://www.AFINETECH.com">www.AFINETECH.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Thos Carpenter <<a href="mailto:cathomas1003@qwestoffice.net">cathomas1003@qwestoffice.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">March 22, 2012 8:11:59 AM MDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Conover (Cable) butt </b><br></span></div><br><div>Dear List,<br>(what are the chances?) does anyone have a 1908 Conover (Cable) hammer butt. Specifically F#7 (in the event that I might find a matching hammer). This is an unique butt in that this particular action is "bridlestrapless". This is the only action I have seen that is such. As I say, this action does not have bridal straps and instead has an "L" shaped hook which protrudes out of the top of the jack which catches in a hole under the catcher dowel.<br>The story given is that - some thirty (or so) years ago a previous technician, of high regard, had taken the hammer and butt with him whom has since gone to greener pastures - the parts in question to be forever lost in the labyrinth of the fabled, ever evasive bottomless drawer of possibly someday usable salvaged piano parts.<br>thanks,<br>Tom<br>Berthoud, CO<br><br>A FINE TECHNICIAN<br>Thos. Carpenter - Piano Technician<br>303.684.6766<br><a href="http://www.AFINETECH.com">www.AFINETECH.com</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote></body></html>