<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Don't you find that your business goes = in spirts. If I tune one piano outside I'll get two or three (pool parties). Or if = I get some off brand piano I've never seen I'll get two within a = week.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan Meyer</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Las Vegas</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=edwithen@oregontrail.net = href="mailto:edwithen@oregontrail.net">Ed Carwithen</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> Saturday, June 29, 2002 = 2:42 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Again???</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It must be some phase of the moon or something.  Last Friday I had the wierd Eterna piano with 75 = notes or whatever.. Today it's a "Chopin" piano.  only 63 notes, and only = two strings per note for the whole piano except one string per note from = D#3 down to the chopped off bottom of the piano.  Actually for such a = "toy" it was pretty well put together.  Owner's father had bought it so = that he could carry it around with a blue grass band.  It was small = enough and light enough to carry anywhere.  Hadn't been tuned since = 1978, and was only down about 5 cents.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wonder what tomorrow will = bring!  Ain't life interesting???????</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed Carwithen</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John Day, OR</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>