<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>And have we all learned, yet, that immediately prior to these "mishaps", we have sense of foreboding? (Perhaps, even, a "still small voice" within saying SLOW DOWN!!!)<br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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<div style="color:navy;font-family:'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"> Lost the tip of my left index. ie. 3 or 4 mm . It was a mess, but my Dr. is an artist.</div>
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From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net><br>
To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br>
Sent: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 9:48 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] A Happy New year?<br>
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<pre style="font-size:9pt;"><tt>On 12/31/2012 11:06 PM, Euphonious Thumpe wrote:
> P.S. My sympathies on the finger! I almost cut mine off on a similarly
> worthless pice of junk a few months ago.
> (Taught me to not get upset about what I'm working on. Or, at least, NOT
> work on it, WHILE I'm upset about it!)
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> *From: * Terry Farrell <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a>>;
> *To: * <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">pianotech@ptg.org</a>>;
> *Subject: * Re: [pianotech] A Happy New year?
> *Sent: * Mon, Dec 31, 2012 5:23:23 PM
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> Nothing good to say. I'm sick, drunk, and I chopped off the end of my
> finger trimming damper felt on this #%&*ing square grand that won't
> leave my shop...... :-(
Home for lunch one day, I whacked my left index finger tip off making a
sandwich, with two more to tune that afternoon. Swellness... I got the
bleeding stopped, taped it up, ate the sandwich, and went back out and
tuned 'em.
Haven't done that yet this year, so far.
Ron N
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