Don Faulkner has been a piano technician since 1981.  He is a Registered Piano Technician (RPT) of the Piano Technicians Guild, Inc. (PTG), and co-president of the New Mexico PTG chapter.  PTG is the only organization in the US that tests  and certifies piano technicians. 

In his other life, Don taught English and Drama (8--12) in Colorado, Iowa and New Mexico for a total of 24 years.  Don has two children:  Michael Stone of Southampton, PA, is vice-president of CertaPro Painters, a nationally franchised commercial and residential painting company;  Morgan Faulkner of State College, PA, is a musical theater student at Penn State University.  Don also has an OD ("other daughter," aka daughter-in-law), Kim Stone, an oncology nurse and renowned mom; and two utterly marvelous grandchildren, grandson Kyle and granddaughter Casey.  Don grew up in Connecticut and has also lived in Colorado, Missouri, and Iowa. 

He now lives in Santa Fe with his wife of 25 years, Carol Horwitz, and his four-legged and feathered children, dogs Edward and Ruby, a killer cat to be named later, forty chickens, as many loaner birds as want to feast at his feeders, and one increasingly fat, corn- and seed-fed yard squirrel who can not believe his good fortune.