Was: Dolge Stuff

[Vince Mrykalo]

> Date:          Tue, 10 Oct 1995 12:35:09 -0600 (MDT)
> From:          johnsond@stolaf.edu (Dennis Johnson)
> Subject:       Was: Dolge Stuff
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <pianotech@byu.edu>
> Reply-to:      pianotech@byu.edu

>         "There is an analogy between the felt business today and what it
> will be and the steel business today and what it used to be. The Steel
> business use to be a question of the individual absolutely. The men in
> charge of heat treating judged the temperatures by their eye. As a result
> you never got a quality of steel that you could absolutely bank on. After
> the installation of pyrometers, where everything was handled mechanically,
> individual opinion was thrown aside. From that time on the steel business
> began to rise. The same thing I think will be true in the felt business.
> Now it is a question a individual opinion. We have no working standard.
> Every manufacturer makes up the product according to his own opinion."
>
>                                                  George Lisk
>                                                  May 1, 1918
>
When a "standard" improves a product, making it more reliable, that
is one thing.  But when that standard serves to mediocritize quality,
that is, when it lowers the standard of the superior products as well
as raise the lower quality products to an average norm, then it is
questionable as to the good of a standard, except to again improve
upon.

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vince mrykalo  rpt

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