[CAUT] Differences?

[Susan Kline]

At 01:20 PM 1/21/2006 -0800, Jeannie wrote:
>Then, when they told me they would teach me, they only gave me a small 
>amount of information, or in some cases, misinformation, so that I would fail.


Jeannie, I'm really sorry to hear that you had to go through this.

An incredible stroke of good fortune, that when I decided
to learn how to tune and repair pianos in 1978, Ted Sambell had just
set up the course I found. No doubt ever that he was
thoroughly and very effectively on my side, and that I would be
able to grow into any aspect of the business I wanted to, from
the start he gave me.

Yes, I had to take Home Ec in 7th and 8th grade as well, even
though my mom had already taught it all to me years before. I
didn't realize at the time how much I would have loved wood
and metal shop. I used to tinker with stuff on my own, without
having any real tools or knowing how to use them. I would buy
folding Kodak cameras from second hand stores, take them all
apart, fix the ball bearing shutters, clean them up, and put them all
back together again, with tweezers, lens tissue and lens-cleaning
fluid, sewing machine oil, and one small screwdriver. The big
ones, with old sizes of film which one couldn't get anymore,
I'd use by cutting and hand-loading sheet film. It was fun.

Pianos were a great discovery -- real tools, real parts, a ton of ways to
do things, and a huge playground of clapped out old uprights to
improvise affordable repairs on.

Susan