[pianotech] Surprising value of business cards

[Paul McCloud]

David:
That's one for the record books.  ROFL!  Classic.  You can't make this stuff up.
pauL mCclOuD
San Diego

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Renaud" <drjazzca at gmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 3:38:00 PM
Subject: [pianotech] Surprising value of business cards


A funny story with a valuable theme. 


I'm tuning a piano at an elderly clients home, and the phone rings. 


It's for you the lady says, it's for the piano tuner. 


Who could it be? My wife does not have my schedule anymore. It must 
Be an emergency and she went digging in the computer for it. 


I take the phone and a lady at the other end would like to book a piano tuning. 
I ask "Ah, are you a friend of client x",..no. 
"A neighbor "...no 
"Do you have my business phone number and web coordinates.."..no, isn't this the piano tuner. 
"Yes, I am tuning mrs x, piano, but how did you get my clients number." 


She replies, the number was in the piano, is this 1888 Lorraine Avn. 
Why yes, that is where i am, but that is my clients house; I'm confused. 


Well she says, your address and phone number is on a business card in the piano. 
Ah, I ask, when is the last time you tuned the piano.......nearly 30 years ago. 


My client, overhearing the growing confusion says, "ah, when we moved here 25 years ago, 
The previous owner was a piano tuner and had passed away, we acquired his phone number." 


What are the chance of her calling to book a tuning, 30 years later, at the very hour I arrive 
At that house to tune a piano. 


Moral of the story.......every business card you leave in a piano may be doing overtime for you 
For decades to come. 


30 years later. 
What are the chances, eh. 


Cheers 
Dave Renaud 








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On 2012-03-25, at 6:19 PM, Thos Carpenter < cathomas1003 at qwestoffice.net > wrote: 










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From: Thos Carpenter < cathomas1003 at qwestoffice.net > 

Date: March 22, 2012 8:11:59 AM MDT 

To: pianotech at ptg.org 

Subject: Conover (Cable) butt 


Dear List, 
(what are the chances?) does anyone have a 1908 Conover (Cable) hammer butt. Specifically F#7 (in the event that I might find a matching hammer). This is an unique butt in that this particular action is "bridlestrapless". This is the only action I have seen that is such. As I say, this action does not have bridal straps and instead has an "L" shaped hook which protrudes out of the top of the jack which catches in a hole under the catcher dowel. 
The story given is that - some thirty (or so) years ago a previous technician, of high regard, had taken the hammer and butt with him whom has since gone to greener pastures - the parts in question to be forever lost in the labyrinth of the fabled, ever evasive bottomless drawer of possibly someday usable salvaged piano parts. 
thanks, 
Tom 
Berthoud, CO 

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