Would you miss this list?

[David Love]

Bill:

Well I'm not sure if this means we'll be reading the ten commandments of
piano technology soon, but if it means we will have the benefit of your
contributions again, I will be glad for that.  

David Love
davidlovepianos@earthlink.net


> [Original Message]
> From: Bill Ballard <yardbird@vermontel.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Cc: <Erwinspiano@aol.com>; <jonpage@mail.attbi.com>
> Date: 3/22/2003 7:05:46 PM
> Subject: Would you miss this list?
>
> Dear List,
>
> I've been off on a walkabout, for forty days and forty nights. During 
> that time, I've simply read the daily traffic, but restrained myself 
> from posting. During this time, the list was filled with priceless 
> technical information, and the sharing thereof. Being reminded daily 
> of what was good about this list, what really made me miss it was not 
> being able to add to it. Not just the OTs and the barking of the yard 
> dog, but threads which were missing what I had to offer. I also sized 
> up the extent to which this list had become my social life, and I 
> certainly didn't miss saying stupid or impulsive stuff. But it has 
> been an extremely difficult exercise, holding my tongue in any of the 
> old ways in which I might have participated on this list.
>
> I don't particularly know of anyone else on the list who has done 
> this. I can name plenty of good people who have left this list for 
> good. But it sure taught me how much I missed this list. It also told 
> me that most of us can survive the dumb stuff which goes on here 
> (should we forget about the recent Amerigo Vespucci side show?). 
> Further, that among those are some very talented and knowledgeable 
> people whose thoughts I want to hear on a daily basis.
>
> I'm not sure why anyone else would want to try a 40 day vow of 
> silence. But should you do, I highly recommend it. The list will 
> still be there: you can read it every day. And with each near miss in 
> restraining yourself from an inappropriate post, you will see that 
> someone filled the breach with their own inappropriateness. And you 
> realize that there but for the grace of your own self-restraint, 
> there go you. The genuine contributions? Well they'll just have wait 
> until your walkabout is done.
>
> (FWIW, "Forty Days and Forty Nights" is a great movie, if you need 
> reminding about what it's like to be young and drunk.)
>
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
>
> "There's a difference between 'involved' and 'committed.' When 
> providing ham and eggs for breakfast, the hen is involved. The pig is 
> committed."
>      ...........(Milo Sturgis in Jonathan Kellerman's novel
"Self-Defense")
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