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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm sure my ex-wife could tell you a few stories of
the calls she could get if my old business phone had been my home phone.
Like the business card that was found in the piano 30 years later, I put my
stickers in all instrument that I service (almost all - the real junkers, I pass
on). Being in St. Louis, I once got a call from Colorado on an
instrument that I serviced. Seem the customer moved there and then sold the
instrument.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It has been 17 years since I moved to where I am
now and I'll bet whoever has my old phone number still gets calls reqesting
service only to be advised that they have not reached me.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ken Gerler</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=drjazzca@gmail.com href="mailto:drjazzca@gmail.com">David Renaud</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> Monday, March 26, 2012 2:19
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [pianotech] Surprising value
of business cards</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
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face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> </FONT></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: small" class=Apple-style-span color=#000080>Th</FONT><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: small"
class=Apple-style-span color=#000080>is is such an astounding
coincidence. Hmm... Maybe its not?</FONT><BR><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: small" class=Apple-style-span color=#000080> Really
though? What are the actual numerical chances?</FONT><BR><FONT
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Dale</FONT><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Ok, cool. I could entertain that. A number for entertainment
purposes.</DIV>
<DIV>To come up with a reasonable number I need to make some reasonable
assumptions.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>So assume the following to estimate the numerical chances.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>That most people would call fir a tuning after 1 year, so I'll exclude
the first year.</DIV>
<DIV>That most people call between the hours of 9am and 7pm, therefore to
be </DIV>
<DIV>Fair and reasonable to the calculation, 10 possible hours per day that
they could </DIV>
<DIV>Have chosen to call back.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>What are the chances of them calling at that particular hour.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>1 /29 years * 10 hrs per day* 365 days a year</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>= 1 in 105,850 </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV> Just over a one in one hundred thousand chance she
would call that location at that particular hour.</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span> But that is only the probability
of her attempting to reach that number at that particular
hour. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span> We </SPAN><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>Also need to calculate the probability of that couple
having chosen to have kept the number, and having chosen not </SPAN><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>to move in 25 years, so as to keep that phone number
working at that location for nearly 3 decades. So more reasonable assumptions
for the purpose of creating a reasonable numerical probability. Assuming
a 50/50 chance that they choose to assume the old phone
number, </SPAN><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>And assuming a one in five chance they didn't move in
nearly 30 years 5*2= a further factor of one </SPAN><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>In 10. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span> Also factor in the chances of this
particular couple at this particular address with this same </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>Old phone number happening to own a piano. Being
generous and conservative, piano ownership was once more common, and this is
an older couple, let's say one in two.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span> Now we need to multiply the three
sets of probabilities of the three conditions together, </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>Number of potential hours to call that number *
probability they still having that number at that same location* probability
of the new people at that location owning a piano.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span> So rounding some numbers
down to be conservative about this</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>1/100,000 * 1/10 *1/2 = a one in two
million chance of her calling that number at that particular hour,
</SPAN><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>Still reaching that same house with that same number,
and that house actually has a piano that needs tuning.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span> That is only the probability of
her calling at that specific time and reaching someone still at that address,
and that someone happens to be a piano owner.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span> Now we need to
multiply that by the probability of them having called me for a tuning, not
someone else, 1/20 , and my booking it at that </SPAN><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>particular hour. They had not tuned their piano in 10
years. </SPAN><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>The chances of them booking a tuning that particular
hour of ten thousand available road hours in the last 10 years. Now we have
1/20(booked me) times 1/10,000 (booked that hour) , =one in 2million
</SPAN><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>That I would be there, not someone else, at that
particular hour over a 10 year period that the </SPAN><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>Piano needed tuning. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span> 1/ 2million (chances of the call at that
particular moment happening and still working) </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>Times 1/2</SPAN><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>million(chances of me being here at that particular
time)</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span> = one in 2 trillion chance of them calling
at that particular hour after 30 years, and that particular number still being
at that house, and that particular house happening to have a piano, and the
house owner calling this particular tuner, and happening to book the tuning at
that same particular hour. Any one of those variables not panning out
correctly and my experiencing this strange phone call does not
happen.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469)"
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<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span> Ok, it's late, I'm tired,
and I'm wasting time hypothesizing about the probability.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span>But the chances are so astounding, it is quite
entertaining......</SPAN></DIV>
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Cheers and loud annoying yelping
sounds</SPAN></DIV>
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Drjazz</SPAN></DIV>
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Dave Renaud</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>A funny story with a valuable theme.</DIV>
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<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>
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<DIV>
Cheers</DIV>
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Dave Renaud</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>On 2012-03-25, at 6:19 PM, Thos Carpenter <<A
href="mailto:cathomas1003@qwestoffice.net">cathomas1003@qwestoffice.net</A>>
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<DIV>A FINE TECHNICIAN</DIV>
<DIV>Thos. Carpenter - Piano Technician</DIV>
<DIV>303.684.6766</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.AFINETECH.com"
target=_blank>www.AFINETECH.com</A></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium">Thos Carpenter
<<A
href="mailto:cathomas1003@qwestoffice.net">cathomas1003@qwestoffice.net</A>><BR></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium"><B>Date:
</B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium">March 22, 2012
8:11:59 AM MDT<BR></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium"><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>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium"><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"
target=_blank>www.AFINETECH.com</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><!-- end of AOLMsgPart_1_ebb78844-b2f1-48ab-ab27-ab79f58d4f25 --></DIV></FONT></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>