John, Thanks for you contribution. Here are my email and "snail" mail addresses so that you can use whichever works best for you: Ken Burton 1 Willow Crescent SW Calgary, Alberta T3C 3B8 kwburton@calgary.freenet.ab.ca On Wed, 26 Jun 1996 jpiesik@arinc.com wrote: > 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 > >
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