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[Ron Nossaman]

> Hi Ron,
> 
> Amazing things happen.  I'm afraid there are some pianos out there that I
> would like to track down and destroy from when I first started in the
> business.  :-o   I can't say I ever did anything quite so <colorful> 
> fifteen
> years into it, though.
> 
> Speaking of staying on the wrong track, after I had been in business for
> some years (it's all a blur), there was a fellow in my community who wanted
> to be a piano tech.  Every once in a while I would get a call from him, he
> would pose a question, I would answer it and then he'd want to argue about
> the information I had given him.  The best example I remember was when he
> called about a bobbling hammer problem in an old upright piano.
> 
> While going through the steps of regulation, I asked, "What's the key dip?"
> 
> "One quarter inch."
> 
> "That's not enough."
> 
> "I want it to play like a harpsichord."
> 
> "It's a piano."
> 
> "But that's the way I want it."
> 
> I can't remember how I got off the phone.......
> 
> 
> Barbara Richmond, RPT

Reminds me of an old Phylis Diller line where she goes into a beauty 
shop, sits down in the chair, and says "Just make me beautiful." 
Physical reality is a real bloody inconvenience to fantasy.

Ron N