Ben Gaffen, the piano tuner, doesn't know the current owners, who bought the house for over half a million dollars just a year and a half ago.

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Alan, the great piano tuner, in his infinite but indirect wisdom, kept money market rates so low that the banks could arbitrage money and dig themselves out of their management-made mud slides.

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But in 1962, during a seven-week tour of the Soviet Union, an ingenious piano tuner gave me the chance to experience what having more than one piano at one's disposal might be like.

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Mr. BEN GAFFEN (Piano Tuner, Musician): I was looking around at stuff, and the decent stuff was 450 to 650.

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