Personal Notes

[Kenneth Sloane]

                      Subject:                              Time:  10:02 AM
  OFFICE MEMO         Personal Notes                        Date:  12/11/95

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(much material cut to conserve space)

>  I was simply trying to make the point (with the illustration of the $15K
>"profit" on the expensive grand), that this particular dealer had no valid
>reason to expect the technician to do $500 worth of work for him for free.
>Everyone else got paid, but because many (most, somewhere between 80-90%)
>technicians are self-employed, and may fear to lose a dealer's good graces or
>business, they are often mis-used (as I feel the original writer, who was
>inquiring about payments for Yamaha Service Bond work, was).
>
>Randy Potter, R.P.T.

Randy,

We seem to agree with each other on all points... I guess great minds work
alike ; )

----------------MY REPLY----------------

Since Pianotech is getting rather large and postings fairly numerous, personal
notes such as above should be directed to the partie(s) concerned. I don't
mean to discourage personal notes since they are certainly nice to receive.
However, I think we need to make Pianotech easy and quick to read to encourage
as much meaningful participation as possible.

Ken Sloane, Oberlin Conservatory

John McKone, RPT
Operations Manager
Haugen's Pianos
Twin Cities