<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o xmlns:w><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Seems like it happens on the cruise ships at = least one a month - the announcement over the LOUD PA system: "For the next hour we = will be testing the PA system." </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Oh, joy!  ;-(</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mwisner@earthlink.net = href="mailto:mwisner@earthlink.net">Mark Wisner</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 20, = 2003 9:45 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: How do you get = them to shut the #%$@ up?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>I would patiently explain to folks that were generating too much = noise for me to work that I needed to have a kinda quiet environment to tune properly.  My next statement was that although I would = be able to tune in spite of the present din, it would affect the quality = of the job.  Worked every time.</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial = size=2></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>