Jim.. I am not sure I see the car industry analogy as quite applicable to the piano industry. For the some of the same reasons that many (most) of you all over there see no reason for certification of piano techs. There is no safety issues involved here. Whatever <<understandings>> there are between those Steinway and those they allow to sell their instruments has to do with what these parties find mutually interesting from a profit standpoint. That wont change unless the situation becomes unprofitable. And thats the core of my point. I believe that the tech world at large does have the opportunity to affect change by attacking the situation from this angle. If we are interested in doing so that is. I dont think there is any chance of affecting change by trying to tell the world there are problems with their basic design. I found your post interesting to be sure. But I dont understand where you are coming from with the below quote however. I never accused the tech world of being responsible for the problem.... I just said if the communal "we" actually want to do something to improve the situation.... we probably could. Where do consumer advocate organizations get their motivation ?? I dunno... perhaps they just want to make things a little better ? Cheers RicB With all this history relating to this problem for someone to say, or imply, that somehow the individual techs of the world are responsible in some nebulous manner for the situation is rather disingenuous...of course these are just my thoughts and opinion..what do I know?? :-) Jim Bryant (FL)
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