Hey John , you almost make sense. <G> Joe Goss imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- [link redacted at request of site owner - Jul 25, 2015] To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 6:50 PM Subject: Re: Longitudinal Modes in Piano Strings (now OT) > Darn, Jim!! > > After hearing this I canceled my plans to attend the convention. Your > class was the whole reason for going. When they put the (E) for everyone > I thought "now's my chance". To be privy to such high learning has > always been my dream and this typo was my foot in the door! > > When will such a an opportunity come my way again? It's not easy, I say, > for someone with my a low level of education to slip into an advanced > class at the "Once in Life Time - Big Deal" convention. No, not at all. > Those hall monitors - or whatever you call them - are mighty tough, and > nasty too I might add. One time, while trying to sneak into a high level > class on plastic elbow freezing, they demanded to check my credentials. > Sweating and shaking I did all I could do; I flashed the little PRT pin > I bought at that convention were everyone got sick as a dog from the > hotel food. > > "Hell, its Hartman again," Said the big one with the trendy keyboard bow > tie. > > "I seen him before tryin to get into that class on the secrets of the > super glues. When are you going to learn, ha?" Said the short one with > the few hairs shy of a true Trump comb-over. > > "What do ya say Dan? I bet this guy doesn't know the difference between > a longitudinal wave and one of them transverse thingies?" > > "Hey just a minute guys," in my mind I was making a fast retreat back to > the safe haven of the exhibit hall," I was just stopping to tie my shoe." > > "Yea right, I don't see no 'A' after that RPT just a measly 'E'." > > I will stop this account at this point. All I can say is that what > followed was not nice, neat or even sanitary. Till this day I haven't > found the nerve to crack the lid on spinet and the scent of freon gas > makes me queasy. > > So this summer instead of attending the "Big Cheese" I will be hitting > the books. I plan on finding out about the moment of inertia and the > bending moments in beams. After all, I have just a moment learn. I > better bone up on all that Latin and Greek talk so I can poly voo such > terms at transverse and distal. Well wait a minute, first I need to > learn to read. That's going to be way hard! > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> Subject: Longitudinal Modes in Piano Strings > >> > >> > >> On page 14 of the program for the 2004 Institute in Nashville, > >> which you received in the mail, my class, "Longitudinal Modes in > >> Piano Strings" is listed as (E) for "Everyone". It is not. It is > >> at the "Advanced" level, and I plainly marked it as such. I do not > >> know who changed it, or why. > >> > >> Sincerely, Jim Ellis > > > John Hartman RPT > > John Hartman Pianos [link redacted at request of site owner - Jul 25, 2015] > Rebuilding Steinway and Mason & Hamlin > Grand Pianos Since 1979 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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