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  • 1.  Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 07-31-2023 15:33

    Hello All. Very sorry to have to share this, but I want to get the word out ASAP. I tested positive for Covid just now, 7/31/23. Perhaps it ended up being a good thing that I stayed on the exam floor for most of the convention. Still, everyone may want to test in the next couple days just to be on the safe side. Covid was obviously at the convention. Hope most of you are spared! 🙏

    Maggie



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    Maggie Jusiel, RPT
    Athens, WV
    (304)952-8615
    mags@timandmaggie.net
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  • 2.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 07-31-2023 17:34

    I have just come up positive as well (7/31), and had a sore throat by Friday evening (7/28).  Unfortunately I was not isolated in the exam room, so I will have been much more of a spreader. Hope everyone stays healthy, and please accept my apologies for not getting a test sooner.


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    Nathan Monteleone RPT
    Fort Worth TX
    (817) 675-9494
    nbmont@gmail.com
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  • 3.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 07-31-2023 19:35

    I also tested positive today (the 31st). I had mild symptoms on the 30th, but thought it was just plain old exhaustion. My symptons contintue to by very mild today. 



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    Andrew Wedman
    Nelson BC
    (250) 460-1586
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  • 4.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 07-31-2023 20:40

    I, too, tested positive today.



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    Alan Eder, RPT
    Herb Alpert School of Music
    California Institute of the Arts
    Valencia, CA
    661.904.6483
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  • 5.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 07-31-2023 22:12

    I hope you all make speedy recoveries. It was good seeing you, Covid aside.



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    Tim Foster
    New Oxford PA
    (470) 231-6074
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  • 6.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 07-31-2023 22:15
    I came down with it as well. As did my wife. 

    Fortunately we have both been vaccinated and boosted and got early treatment so the symptoms have been relatively mild.

    Del




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  • 7.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 08-01-2023 06:32
    Del

    So sorry to hear that. Despite that, you still gave an excellent speech at the banquet. I don't know if anyone told you, but you got a 5 minute standing ovation at the end. Well deserved, my friend, and congratulations, again. 

    Wim




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  • 8.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 08-01-2023 17:35

    1 Aug 2023, 1700

    My wife had to go get a new test, the one we had expired 13 months ago.  I tested Negative.  Bill Davis tested positive and has gotten treatment, he is home , isolated upstairs.  Sorry to hear so many have tested positive :(  I wish you all speedy recovery and mild symptoms!



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    Sheffey Gregory, RPT
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  • 9.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Member
    Posted 08-01-2023 09:35

    I've also tested positive, with fairly mild symptoms. Wishing speedy recovery for all.



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    Brian Fox
    San Carlos CA

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  • 10.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 08-01-2023 11:44

    Also wishing a speedy recovery for all! Hopefully, the strains circulating are a weaker.



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    Tremaine Parsons RPT
    Georgetown CA
    (530) 333-9299
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  • 11.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 08-02-2023 22:28

    I know Maggie breathed on me in the exam office, but I evidently escaped contamination as my PCR test came back negative.  Yay! 😃 

    Peter Grey Piano Doctor 



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    Peter Grey
    Stratham NH
    (603) 686-2395
    pianodoctor57@gmail.com
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  • 12.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 08-03-2023 11:52

    I had encounters with about everyone who commented. 

    Took a rapid antigen test on Tuesday 8/1 - negative.

    Took another one just now (8/3) - negative. 

    Guess taking all the echinacea, goldenseal, colloidal silver and other supplements

    has paid off. Can't remember the last time I was actually sick.

    Oh, and probably getting the vaccine/boosters helped, but my understanding is

    it doesn't prevent, only minimizes symptoms. 

    I was moved by the long standing ovation Del got at the banquet. I really 

    enjoy his anecdotal stories. Congratulations Del. Don't know why it hasn't come 

    to you sooner. 



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    Dave Conte, RPT

    Piano Technician in Residence
    The University of Tennessee
    College of Music
    Knoxville TN
    (817) 307-5656
    Owner: Rocky Top Piano
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  • 13.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 08-03-2023 12:11

    Sorry Peter! Really nice to meet you, though! I'm not sure when I was exposed but I'm pretty sure I wasn't contagious when we were in contact. I think I wasn't contagious until Sunday. My hubby is still testing negative and we were in contact on Sunday. Several people who were in contact with me Saturday are also testing negative. Grateful for that. It's hard to know since we don't know who the carriers were, and I doubt they even know. Some of them may have even been asymptomatic. (Assuming it is likely there was more than one.) 

    Dave - very glad you were spared! My zinc was definitely not enough! LOL 

    Del - So sorry for those of you who got hit. Hoping for a full recovery! 🙏 



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    Maggie Jusiel, RPT
    Athens, WV
    (304)952-8615
    mags@timandmaggie.net
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  • 14.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 08-03-2023 21:13

    I had to leave the convention on Saturday afternoon. Wound up stuck at DCA for 3.5 hours with hundreds of travelers due to storms in the area. I was not feeling well by the time I arrived in Austin. Woke up Sunday and tested positive. Finally starting to feel better! 

    I should also mention I just spoke on the phone with Jim Geiger. He has also tested positive.

    Take care and be well!!



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    Glenn Doyle
    Temple TX
    (254) 205-1125
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  • 15.  RE: Positive for Covid

    Posted 08-04-2023 07:18

    Maggie, I was in a group of folks talking to you and I was around other people had it and even shook their hands with them.. One gentleman from Clearwater got Covid and is feeling rather miserable.  I had been taking grapefruit seed extract pills in the days leading up to the convention and also during the convention and afterwards.  Also, vaxxed with everything available.  Still negative as of 8/4.  I hope you and everyone else who contracted it are starting to feel better.



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    Patrick Greene
    OWNER
    Knoxville TN
    (865) 384-6582
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