<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Then there was the crabby mother I tuned for. Her sullen son was about 19. <br> <br> When he was two years old, he'd chipped a bunch of ivory. She still was <br> dripping vitriolic scorn over him because of it. You can imagine how pleased he <br> was over that. For his sake, I wish she'd understood the concept of a statute <br> of limitations, back when he was about four years old. <br> <br> I warn parents of very young children about their ("flint knapping") <br> impulse to chip piano keys. I tell the parents that age two is the big danger area. <br> They're way too young even to know it's wrong. <br> <br> By the way, we were talking about providing piano wire for non-piano applications. <br> I just had a repeat request for a 1/3 pound reel of size 13-1/2. I'd forgotten what <br> he used it for. Aligning helicopter drive shafts! (How cool is that?) <br> <br> He said I have a different car now. That means that the last time he got a <br> reel from me was at least seven years ago. He paid me twice what I asked. <br> <br> Good 2013 to all -- <br> <br> Susan<br> <br> <br> </font>Piano Boutique wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:650538C0FCD24FAFBDA1BC62C5E9F991@pianoboutique" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19393"> <style></style> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I once had a customer call me to replace some broken key tops.   When I was there she told me that young Bad Johnny had got angry and took a golf club to the piano:  and she said, he sure got in trouble for hurting those golf clubs too.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">William</font></div> <div> </div> <br> </blockquote> </body> </html>