<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'><font size="2"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">David<br>  </font></font>Th<font color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2">is is such an astounding coincidence.  Hmm... Maybe its not?<br>   Really though? What are the actual numerical chances?<br>   Dale<br> <br> <div style="clear:both"><font color="royalblue" size="1"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin RPT</font><br> </font></font></b></font><font color="darkgreen"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><font color="black">WWW.Erwinspiano.com</font><br> <font color="crimson">209-577-8397</font><br> <font color="darkgreen"></font></font></b></span></font><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen"><br>  </font><br>   <font size="2"></font></tt></tt><br> <br> </div> <br> <br> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br> From: David Renaud <drjazzca@gmail.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Sun, Mar 25, 2012 3:43 pm<br> Subject: [pianotech] Surprising value of business cards<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_ebb78844-b2f1-48ab-ab27-ab79f58d4f25"> <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 target="_blank" 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"> </div> <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 target="_blank" href="http://www.AFINETECH.com">www.AFINETECH.com</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </div> </blockquote></div> <br> </div> </blockquote> </div>  </div> </font></font>