> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment As often happens, my unconventional attempt to make a point was off the mark. On my soapbox... Of course I don't think the washer was the proper repair. I just found it interesting that you assumed it to be ingenious by a piano owner, but incompetent by a tuner, when you had no idea who the tuner was, or his level of training. For all you know, it may have been his first piano. We're all incompetent relative to the next person with higher skills and knowledge. This is one of my pet peeves about PTG. We pass a few tests that put us at entry level at best, and suddenly we become God's gift to piano owners. >From what I have seen, for the remainder of their careers, a large percentage of PTG members, RPTs included, don't climb much higher up the proverbial competence ladder, yet many are all too willing to scoff at the unwashed of the piano world, the incompetent waifs. You wonder why so many tuners outside PTG hate our guts? Yes, I've seen some interesting and bizarre repairs to pianos by novices of the trade, but to tell the truth, I've seen a lot more damage from PTG members. I tire easily of discussions of how incompetent others are when, quite frankly, a lot of the discussions on this and other PTG forums are not much higher than which size of washer to hang on the sticker, ie., "what is a pitman." Lest I be misunderstood yet again, no, I don't think there are stupid questions, I just don't think "stupid" questions should share the same forum with belittling others' level of understanding. That, Wim, is what I was suggesting. Off my soapbox. Rick on 3/12/04 8:42 AM, Wimblees@aol.com at Wimblees@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/11/04 2:14:00 PM Central Standard Time, Rick.Florence@asu.edu writes: Some might consider not knowing what a pitman is, or not knowing the Steinway spec. for hammer shank distance as a sign of incompetence. Incompetence is a relative term. Rick You're not suggesting that you think the washer was a comepent repair, are you Rick? Wim _____________ Rick Florence Piano Technician Arizona State University, School of Music ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/df/c0/19/20/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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