NPR - Crash, Bang, Crunch - my first service call of the day

[James Radford]

Other than that, how did your day go?

Jim Radford
Associate
Templeton, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglasmahard@AOL.COM <Douglasmahard@AOL.COM>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2000 3:40 PM
Subject: NPR - Crash, Bang, Crunch - my first service call of the day


>Here is how my day started:
>Stage tuning at a local high school.  Stage door is unlocked for me by band
>director but doesn't give me any lights.  It's dark!  I think I remember
>where the switches are and make my way over to that area.  I start groping
>around on the wall for the light switch and hit the curtain switch instead.
>Lots of noise with large things falling over and glass breaking as the
>curtain drags across a stage set.
>
>The front of the stage set didn't survive.  Two large walls fell over, one
>hitting a sofa and buckling, the other draping itself over a table with a
>flower vase and type writer on it.  Two panels popped out of this one.
>Flower vase in lots-o-pieces.  CA glue could put humpty dumpty back
together
>again.
>
>I find the drama instructor and he starts yelling some choice words, not at
>me but just venting.  He's done, then another little out burst.  He's
>finished now and I haven't said anything other then "Sorry."  I tell him
I'm
>a good carpenter (previous business) and would be happy to meet with his
>chief set builder to get this mess back together and put up.  He likes that
>idea and heads off to teach a class.
>
>Little white flower vases are nonexistent in Litchfield County.
>
>Yow!
>
>Doug Mahard