Long Distance Service Call - Roger J

Farrell mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 07:28:41 -0500


Well Roger, looks like you may have been outdone with your long distance service call to Hong Kong. You may not have received pay, but I'll bet you found some booze!!!
  
Terry Farrell

>From another piano-related email list:

> who: Piano Tuner Graham Harris
> what: Begins 5,000 mile trek to tune rainforest tribe's grand piano
> where: Guyana
> when: Yesterday
> snippet: The 190-strong Wai-Wai tribe acquired the mahogany grand 
> piano as a gift from adventurer John Blashford-Snell in 2000, 
> explains The Telegraph. Since then, "the heat and humidity and the 
> ravages of wood-eating insects have taken their toll." "It is so 
> humid out there that the woodwork could have been eaten to death by 
> ants," explains Mr Harris. "It will be quite a change from my normal 
> jobs: there are no roads there and no power, no booze and no tobacco."


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