For Ken Burton

[jpiesik@arinc.com]

    Hi Ken,

    What is your EMAIL address so that I may send along an amazing tidbit
    for your new book?  My clients and I really enjoy your current book, and
    I look forward to the new one!

    John Piesik
    San Diego Chapter PTG
    JPIESIK@ARINC.COM

    P.S.  Were you able to get a hold of any of the hilarious piano tuner
    limericks?  If you haven't, you might try the PTG home office - they had
    a limerick contest a year or so back.  Many of the entries were
    extremely creative!!  Good luck!

 Hi, all:

 I want to thank all those who sent me their funny and/or amazing
stories from the experiences of piano technicians. I now have about 90
stories (including several piano tuner jokes I have found). However, I
need 60 or 70 more.

 I would like to include your story as well, along with your name
and home town, in Tooner Tales which will be published this fall. Please
trot out your best funny or amazing story (must be true; must be clean)
and send it along.

 If you would prefer to tell your story to me in person, I will be
with Randy Potter in his booth at the Dearborn Convention. See you there!

 Here's a little chuckle to whet your appetite:

 A piano technician was trying to get a hotel room in the Canadian
city where a technical convention was being held and the hotel clerk was
losing his patience.
 "Look," he said, "I've told you a dozen times, we don't have any
rooms. We're full."
 "If Prime Minister Jean Chretien was coming," the tuner persisted,
"you'd have a room for him, wouldn't you?"
 "Why, of course," the clerk admitted.
 "Then let me have his room," gloated the technician, "He's not
coming!"

 Ken Burton
      "Doctor Piano"
     Calgary, Alberta