Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-12-20 | Page 11 | Still Another Day Gone, No Yule Shopping Done `

Still Another Day Gone, No Yule Showing Done I ended and no shopping doo. Four days left, though. By OIFT HI NTEB Well, I finally got down town today for my Christmas shopping, shop-ping, but I'm afraid I got aide-tracked aide-tracked a little. A piano in a store window caught my eye one of those little pianos which, when not in use, can be shoved out of the way under the kitchen table. .in i. . .... -, T i "jlfiJl! I uoea it get out 01 tune . i asked the man. "I'm allergic to piano tuners. The tunes they play make me sad. I remember when they had the national piano tun-era tun-era convention in my home town. The chairman opened the meeting, meet-ing, somebody played The Well-Tempered Well-Tempered Clavichord' and. the speaker viewed with alarm, say-ins say-ins tha profession waa threatened threat-ened with extinction by the new music, which sounded aa good with tha piano out of tuna aa in tune. "They drafted a memorial ta congress protesting againat plowing plow-ing under of any more out-of-tune pianos and adopted a fair practice coda that outlawed furnace fur-nace repairmen tuning pianos free aa a loss leader. They offered a prize for discovery dis-covery of tha moat out-of-tune piano and. finally found it in the homo of tha town's most promi-nent promi-nent piano tuner. j "Tha convention ended In a ' fight when they wanted to close with singing MyCountry, fis of Thee,' and nobody could carry a , tune, and they accused one another an-other of singing off key. Am I boring you?" "Well, not exactly," the" man aaid. "Do yoa want to buy this piano?" "Not juat now, I guess." "Well, we're about ta close up now." he aaid. And so another business day 1 . ' 1