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Offline Rye Miles

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So, you are the one that tunes those saloon pianos to sound tinny?   ;D

I cattle rustled as a kid.
Had to maintain the family garden, the dairy farm next door never liked to fix the fences.
One day, one of the cows got out and trampled the garden.  I held her for ransom


 :o If you hear a piano that's in tune in a western, it's not historically correct! There wasn't a whole lot of piano tuners out west! Interestingly enough though, most of the piano players had tuning hammers and had to at least learn a little out of necessity. Those pianos had to become practically unplayable at some point! ;D
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Offline Sir Charles deMouton-Black

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:o If you hear a piano that's in tune in a western, it's not historically correct! There wasn't a whole lot of piano tuners out west! Interestingly enough though, most of the piano players had tuning hammers and had to at least learn a little out of necessity. Those pianos had to become practically unplayable at some point! ;D


Opernokerty tunes but once!  ;)
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Third generation Wyoming cowhand/rancher.  Have run a trap line, have drove teams on a wagon. Done a lot of the  stuff folks have fantasy of doing. It's not near as romantic as it seems from the outside looking in. ;)
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The Army was pretty close, but as a teenager, during the summers I lived as a 19th Century kid. When not working in the hayfield, I wandered around the valley (and hills sometimes) with a .22 or a fishing pole. No licence or supervision required nor expected.
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Offline Rye Miles

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Opernokerty tunes but once!  ;)

Yep, heard that one and also You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish! ::)
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Re: Actual Jobs You have Had that may relate to CAS, Plainsman, or even Earlier
« Reply #25 on: November 02, 2016, 03:52:44 PM »
Not long after I started commercial under water salvage diving, (1967\8) a TV program came out "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau". (Called "Sharks".)
The opening segment of the program showed what looked like a diver in a full wet suit being attacked by a Shark!
Well, this caused my 'pucker factor' to go well above the 10 scale! A lot of sharks off the east coast of Fl.
After watching the whole program it turned out, this was an old wet suit filled with dead fish, not a living human.
From that day on, I fell in love with this program.
My best,
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Re: Actual Jobs You have Had that may relate to CAS, Plainsman, or even Earlier
« Reply #26 on: November 03, 2016, 07:06:04 AM »
Wore a gun belt and a badge for 21 years, even had a hog leg in the holster, fully loaded!
Darksider-1911 Shooter-BOLD Chambers-RATS-SCORRS-STORM-1860 Henry(1866)-Colt Handgun Lover an' Fan-NRA-"RiverRat"-Conservative American Patriot and Former Keeper & Enforcer of the Law an' Proud of Being Both! >oo

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Re: Actual Jobs You have Had that may relate to CAS, Plainsman, or even Earlier
« Reply #27 on: November 03, 2016, 10:20:45 AM »
Cowboy, school teacher, gun shop employee (including about 12years atThe Flintlock In Hobby City, Anaheim, CA), guest speaker at numerous high school history classes at Santiago HS in Santa Ana, complete with a number of guns (imagining THAT being allowed today), author of two published western novels and another dozen or so still in various stages of completion and all the research that it involved, co-owner of a cowboy clothing shop, and a lifelong fan of cowboy movies going back to The Cisco Kid, Roy and Dale, Hoot Gibson, and a host of others, and a shooter from about age six on.
People like me are the reason people like you have the right to bitch about people like me.

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Re: Actual Jobs You have Had that may relate to CAS, Plainsman, or even Earlier
« Reply #28 on: November 03, 2016, 02:19:48 PM »
Military (Loved That), Master Wookworker/Cabinet Maker (Loved That), LEO (professional target), Gunsmith (Loved That). 
Absolutely the number one bestest job ever is ...... TA DA ..... RETIRED.  No Boss, No hours, No pesky co-workers, do what I want, when I want, the way I want.  I realize it's a tough gig, but someone has to do it.  That someone is ME!!

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