Customizing Transactional Emails Template - Customer Comments

[rbhead]

I have come across a few examples, but none seem to work.  I simply want to display customer instructions for an order on the transactional email being sent.  I see the comments being registered in the order (via admin screen) and I get the email.  I just get a blank for the comments.  I have tried a few approaches, but am roughly using this in the template:

<p>New Order Comments {{var order.getCustomerNote())}}</p>

I assume I am missing something simple, but it has caused me too much banging my head in frustration so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[letssewllc]

@rbhead

if you copy/pasted that from the code you have been doing, you have an extra parenthesis.

[rbhead]

Copy-Paste error, the code has balanced parens