Robin, Here it is several thousand square miles of humanity but lots of pianos. David I. -----Original Message----- From: Robin Blankenship <itune@firstsaga.com> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Friday, December 08, 2000 8:14 AM Subject: Re: Average person's perception.... >For me, it is the stillness that allows the beauty to wash the soul. >Southside Virginia is several thousand square miles of quiet and >contemplative beauty. Gently rolling land, dark forests, ancient farm >fields, empty roads. Good for the soul. > >David, thank you for sharing this very personal moment and insight. > >Robin > >----- Original Message ----- >From: David Ilvedson, RPT <ilvey@jps.net> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 11:34 PM >Subject: Re: Average person's perception.... > > >> Patchy clouds with some sunlight coming through. Not very cold here right >> now. Very still at that moment. Seagulls screeching...Winter here is >mild >> but usually wet. Hasn't been very wet yet. We have the bare trees but a >> lot of cypress which keeps it looking green. It was just a very beautiful >> moment. >> >> David I. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Robin Blankenship <itune@firstsaga.com> >> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> >> Date: Thursday, December 07, 2000 6:31 PM >> Subject: Re: Average person's perception.... >> >> >> >David, >> >What is the winter sky like in San Fran? I lived for a year in San Diego. >> We >> >didn't have a winter sky. Then again, we didn't have a winter, either. On >> >the mid-East Coast, a winter sky means low, gloomy overcast. A pale gray. >A >> >bleak scan of bare trees. Upturned soil in the fields. Stubble. Brown. >> Calm. >> >Cold. >> > >> >Robin >> > >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >From: David Ilvedson, RPT <ilvey@jps.net> >> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org> >> >Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 7:46 PM >> >Subject: Re: Average person's perception.... >> > >> > >> >> I can't imagine doing anything else... >> >> >> >> Today I went into San Francisco to three commercial accounts >> (restaurants) >> >> and one new one at Fort Mason at a theatre on the Bay not far from the >> >> Golden Gate Bridge. When I was done I packed up my tools and sat down >on >> >> the pier and just took it all in...seals swimming below me, Winter >> >sky...its >> >> a hard life........... >> >> >> >> David I. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> >> >> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> >> >> Date: Thursday, December 07, 2000 11:12 AM >> >> Subject: Re: Average person's perception.... >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >"David Ilvedson, RPT" wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> When I was 23, with hair down to middle of my back, I told my father >I >> >> was >> >> >> interested in piano tuning. He said "piano tuning"? But he was >> smart >> >> >> enough and desperate enough to shut his mouth and call the local >> >Baldwin >> >> >> piano dealer who referred him to PTG in Seattle who recommended WIT >in >> >> Sioux >> >> >> City, Iowa. The rest is history folks...well. my history >anyway...;-] >> >> >> >> >> >> David I. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >So what do you think after all these years ?? Would you do things >> >> differently >> >> >if you had the chance to do it all over ?? I kinda fell into piano >work >> >by >> >> >accident way back when... all in all.... the best thing that ever >> >happened >> >> to >> >> >me. Still... if there was one thing I could go back and change it >would >> >be >> >> my >> >> >lack of interest for school and in particular math and science as a >kid. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >-- >> >> >Richard Brekne >> >> >RPT, N.P.T.F. >> >> >Bergen, Norway >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >
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