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[Albertien de Pater]

>Please tell us about yourself if you want, we´re (well, a good portion of 
>the listees are ) always interested in other techs´ work and lives and 
>besides, Newton doesn´t have ANYTHING else to do "confined" to the vast 
>expanses of the Internet :).
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>Have a good week,
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>Kristinn

I am a bit afraid of the other (maybe biggest) portion of the listees who
sigh, oh no, not again... 
Well, in short:
I am 39, went to the piano school in 1989, worked for a couple of years in
a restoration/rebuilding/renovating etc. shop, part-time, and did my own
tunings for the rest of the time. The reason for going to this school was I
wanted to learn to repair piano's. I didn't think I would like the tuning
part. But it turned out I liked that too, and it went quite well. So now I
do both, and I like the combination. Got my CPT status in 1998. I have my
own workshop, below my house, where I do actions, but also complete piano's
or grands. For some of the work I ask a freelance colleague to help out,
for example for french polishing or other case work. Most of the time I
work on old, pre-war piano's, which I often love most of all. The good
ones, ofcourse. 
The danger of working alone is obvious, so I try to keep in contact with a
lot of colleagues, and I am very grateful for the existence of this list,
and for our new list in the dutch language.
That's about it, I think. Looks like a job application, sorry about that.
Back to the piano's.

Best wishes to all of you, 
Albertien