Who is Kim Bunker?

[Gregor _]

Ric,

what do you mean by: industry is quite regulated?

Gregor


>From: Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
>Reply-To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: Who is Kim Bunker?
>Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:05:47 +0100
>
>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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