Today is the start of the last week of the school 1 term.
This will be a short week as Good Friday is this Friday, so only 4 days of work
at DR TOOT. It’s been a busy week at DR TOOT. Shoko and Daddy have been very
busy working on repairs and cleaning the shop. It is always very important to
make sure that all the tools are clean and polished. Poor maintenance on tools
will result to poor quality of workmanship…and poor workmanship never happens
at DR TOOT.
This week we had 2 instruments arrive in from Japan. One is
a Yamaha tenor sax and the other was a Yamaha tenor trombone. The tenor sax was
ordered for a school here in Auckland. Both will be worked on tomorrow and the tenor sax will be whizzed off to its new home at an Auckland school, while the
trombone will wait for a new home somewhere in NZ. Remember, if you are
interested in an instrument, let us know your budget and we will do our best to
match the instrument to your budget. This week a Yamaha 4 valve Euphonium found
a home to the same school the Yamaha tenor sax is going to.
This Tuesday marks the end of our financial year and
Wednesday marks the beginning of the new one. One of the new changes will be
the terms we use for our repair services. Instead of Plan A or B Services, we
will be using a Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum Service Plan which will give
our customers a greater choice of services and prices. We think this is very
exciting. Alfa and I proof read the services and we are both happyJ This financial
year also heralds the end of a Music Shop here in Howick. Tom Kroon’s
Musicworks will be closing its doors after 38 years of trading. Daddy worked
for them for awhile. We all at DR TOOT, wish them all the best in the future !
On Saturday morning, Alfa and I went in for our yearly
healthy checkup. The gentleman at the Howick Vet said we were both in very good
health. He did say though that Alfa had gained a lot of weight. Too much weight
and that we should keep an eye on her. There is and awful lot of weight to keep
an eye on. Alfa….please keep your eye on your food and not on mine!!! I have
said many times before….Alfa LOVES FOOD J
