<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=280360013-31121999>Brian,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=280360013-31121999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN = class=280360013-31121999>My hat is off to you, sir.  You have bested the rest of us for sure.  = Congrats, and Happy New Year!   :-))</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=280360013-31121999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>John Formsma<BR>Blue Mountain, MS</FONT> = </P></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> = owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]<B>On Behalf Of</B> Brian Holden<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 31, 1999 6:29 AM<BR><B>To:</B> = Woodchester Pianos; Ted Smyth; Sue and John Martin; Selwyn Wright; = Rolf Carstens; Rex Carswell; Pianotech Forum; Patrick Holden; Murray = Hancox; McHaffie Graham; Malcom McDonald; Lesley Holden; Kerry Sawyer; Ken = Blackman; John Chan Wong; George Merriman; Dell Purdie; Bill = Holden<BR><B>Subject:</B> FIRST TUNING FOR 2000!<BR><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Ahem.  In the wee small hours = of this morning I tuned my piano.  Why? Because I'm crazy, that's = why.  As New Zealand is one of the first to see the sunrise, I figure that this = is the first tuning in world for the new century.  See attachment.  = Brian Holden, Rotorua, New Zealand </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>