Stupid (Reply)

[FRED W TREMPER]

Roger:
On the Tremper Stupidity Index you deserve a 7.  No one has yet been 
more stupid than I (my ordering 88 tuning pins).  I awarded myself a 9 on 
the TSI.  (Isn't there someone more stupid than I?)

Fred

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Roger Jolly wrote:

> Fred,
>          This happen not too long ago, and caused me a great deal of
> embarrassment.
> Late Saturday PM a well respected music teacher called in a panic could I
> please come and check two notes on her piano as she was having a recital in
> her home that evening. Her usual tuner had tuned the piano that morning but
> had taken off out of town for the week end.
> No problem being a good Samaritan.
> Simple problem two notes in the killer octave of a U1 with loose hammer heads.
> In a rush I failed to wipe excess glue from the joint. The lady was not too
> pleased when the two notes would not play at all that evening.
> Some glue had run down the shank and firmly fixed the shanks to the back
> rail cloth.
> I wish to remain anonymous
> Duh!!!!!!!
> Roger
> Roger Jolly
> Baldwin Yamaha Piano Centre
> Saskatoon and Regina
> Saskatchewan, Canada.
> 306-665-0213
> Fax 652-0505
> 

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