[CAUT] reverse grip tuning pins

[Chris Solliday]

And as anyone who has survived a corporate culture can tell us, Marketing
Rules!
I think the real issue for us is how to remain substantial and perservere.
Being a piano technician/rebuilder is an interesting vocation, but stuff
like that can really bring you down. This might be more challenging than all
the design flaws in history.
Marketing may rule but it is anything but just. To paraphrase, the first
casualty in sales is the truth.
In fact I have a plan to turn it all around. Tax advertising. Don't give 'em
a tax break. Make 'em pay to sling that...
Chris Solliday
Chris Solliday
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] reverse grip tuning pins


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> > Ron is right about the advantages of cut vs. rolled pins. But not about
> > the marketing hype. At least as I remember it the claim was made by some
> > that the cut thread tuning pins helped make the pianos using them stay
> > in tune longer by not allowing the tuning pin to slip backward which, as
> > we all know, causes the piano to go out of tune.
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> Something like this, maybe, included in the original post?
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>  > The guys who's pianos had these
>  > | pins used the same demo, illustrating how these pins resisted
>  > | turning backward, and would therefore hold a tuning longer
>  > | without "slipping".
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> > Marketing is such a wonderful thing.
> > Del
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> Isn't it just?
> Ron N
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