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When her mentor passed his territory on to her, he told her he was done traveling so far away. “I have twelve piano clients up there,” he said. “You could probably get twenty.”

Well, “up there” turned out to mean Plentywood to Opheim — a piano tuner’s desert. Until now.

Nancy Scow of Helena, a member of the Montana Chapter of the Piano Technicians Guild, has been working “up here” for about two years and as of last week had ...