This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dave, I service a number of Shigerus and was fortunate enough to be allowed to = sit in when Master Piano Artisan Naomi Hamaguchi worked his magic on one of them. I was disappointed not to be able to watch MPA Otake when he = arrived last Spring, but later found out that he prefers working alone and would have been uncomfortable with me there. Kawai is trying to set up a technicians' training program just for this reason. I'm not sure how = far along it is (I'm sure Don can respond to that). We should be respective = of these techs. They are there to work on the pianos, not to train us. = They all have different personalities, as do we, and it may not be = appropriate for us to intrude on their work. It wouldn't hurt for us to take a step back and realize that there are cultural differences that may also be a factor here. jeannie =20 Jeannie Grassi, RPT Associate Editor, Piano Technicians Journal <mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net> mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On = Behalf Of Piannaman@aol.com Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 12:46 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Shigeru techs sightings =20 Hello list, and Mr. Mannino in particular,=20 One of the stores I do some contract work for had a concert this past Friday. The store manager asked me to get a Kawai RX 6 ready for the concert with the time I had allotted for store work.=20 I spent about 4 hours + pitch raising, tuning, lubing knuckles, and = keypins, and doing a minor regulation. I thought it played and sounded purty = danged good when I was done. Granted, nothing had probably been done to it regarding regulation in the two years since it had been uncrated.=20 So I called the store the next day to find out how things went and how = the piano performed. Turns out, a 7 foot Shigeru had been brought in for = the event, and with it came one of the elusive Shigeru techs who spent some hours on the piano, then spent a few more on the RX 6 I'd just worked = on. Hopefully, I did a decent job of roughing it in for him....:-)=20 So my point here is, I'd like to see one of these techs work, and find = out why they are so highly regarded. Don, if at all possible, it would be really nice to have a heads-up when something like this is going to = happen, so I can block out the time to come and garner a bit of knowledge and wisdom. It would be very valuable to me, as well as all of the = customers of Kawai pianos--and there are many--that I service regularly.=20 Thanks in advance,=20 Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/0b/16/9c/3f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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