[pianotech] Surprising value of business cards

[Zeno Wood]

Maybe you've been missing a lot of phone calls!


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Renaud <drjazzca at gmail.com>
> To: "pianotech at ptg.org" <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:38:00 -0400
> 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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