average age?, previous profession?

[Avery Todd]

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Was that the one in CA, I belive? If so, I started with that one also.
Thankfully, I got away from it! :-)

Avery

At 04:08 PM 1/3/05, you wrote:
>Hi List,
>I did 25 years in the Royal Canadian Navy, retiring in 1981.
>My career manager offered me the option of staying in the Navy till age 55.
>I said no, as I had about 100 people wanting a piano tuning. Remember this 
>is about 5 years after I started tuning.
>
>I started doing pianos in 1975, part time, when our piano tuner had a 
>stroke.My Wife said, "who is going to do our piano now?" I was reading a 
>magazine at the time, and saw an ad for a course in piano tuning. I 
>completed the course in 1976.
>(I have since found out that is the bottom of the list, as far as tuning 
>courses go.) But it did get me started.
>
>I joined the Guild, and began attending conventions. It was true, the 
>course I had taken, was a bad course.
>But many conventions later, I now feel that I give good value for money.
>
>This list and the conventions are the best.
>
>Best regards,
>John M. Ross
>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
><mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca>jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
>

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