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[Dave Davis]

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Clyde,

Thanks for the story. It sweetened my morning.

Dave Davis

Clyde wrote:

I parked along the curb and got out of the car.  He was standing there, 
waiting for me.
"Do you remember my name?"
As we walked toward the suburban house I looked at my service card.
"Well, I have two names written down here, Nathan and Austin."
"Which one am I?"
I sized him up.
"I think you must be the younger one, which I probably wrote down 
second, so I think you must be Austin."

I was right.  We walked into the living room where the 1964 Winter 
spinet was waiting for me, with everything already cleared off the top.  
Mom drove away to get the groceries and left the visiting grandma in 
charge.  Austin watched as I pulled the piano a few inches from the 
wall 
so the lid would stay up, put a cloth where it touched the wall to 
avoid 
the possibility of marks, and began inserting my strip mutes.  Kids 
sometimes ask me why I do that, but I think Austin watched me last 
year.

"What grade will you be in when school starts?"
"Fourth."
Smart kid.  Nice kid.  I like kids like that.  Interested, but not 
getting in the way.  Savor the moment.  In a few years he'll be a 
teenager, not likely to greet the piano tuner even though I'm not a 
stranger to the family.  I've tuned this piano every year going back 
well before Austin was born, and I tune for at least five of his 
mother's siblings.





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