Hi Paul, Thanks for the greeting. Its nice to be back ! Summer was fantastic... 8400 kilometers of driving all over Europe... French Britany coast... Zermat and the Matterhorn in Switzerland, Berlin, Amsterdam... Koblenz on the Rhine... all with camping trailer pulled behind. Mixed in to all this was a week at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a bunch of very accomplished CAUT techs for the yearly Steinway & Sons seminar there. Very interesting approach to learning and quite enlightening to see up close and personal how an all Steinway School actually functions... what they think of themselves and all the implications back and forth about being <<all Steinway>>. As far as the guy is concerned.... tongue in cheek from my part as much as anything else. I have to crack up a bit as the collective <<we>> on pianotech and what we let ourselves get all riled up about. If there is an interesting bit to the episode (interesting to me anyways...) its that this kind of thing is a natural expectant... a result if you will of the US <<freedom>> concept. One is actually very free to do exactly what that fellow does over there. And in fact the PTG as an organization endorsed this freedom when asked some years back about regulating the industry if I am not mistaken. The same condition exists here in Norway... but not every place in Europe. In Switzerland the industry is quite regulated... or was last time I checked. In Germany it is also... but that is weakening. In my experience the <<free for all>> approach is at best a double sided sword.... with the sharpest edge on the buyer beware side. But thats just my thinking. Regardless how one approaches the subject tho.... ignorance is a self-breeding beast that even the best of the best find hard if not impossible to avoid being smitten by from time to time. Cheers RicB Ric: NIce to have the Northern European "voice of reason" back. Hope you had a great summer!. This guy's just an obscure footnote, but I still don't know who he is or if anyone in the vicinity of him know him. Cheers back at you. Paul "If you want to know the truth, stop having opinions" (Chinese fortune cookie) In a message dated 08/19/07 15:33:12 Central Daylight Time, ricb at pianostemmer.no writes: Hi Folks. Hope you all had a wonderful summer. Mine was fantastic ! I see life at pianotech is about where it was when I last logged on..... grin. I mean you are talking North America right... the land where anyone can say and do just about what they want to and get away with it :).... Let the guy rant on and dont bother about it. He's going to do what... minus 12 degrees damage to the rest of us ?? Cheers and long live Pianotech !
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