[pianotech] Question of Protocol; was: but will it split

[Ron Nossaman]

David Andersen wrote:
> Exactly. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. For example:
>> (DS)
>> If you were called upon to do a fine regulation of existing dampers, 
>> would you first pull the tray and install capstans? 
>> (RN)
>> Stupid question. If you had to regulate a system with capstans, would 
>> you pull the tray and remove them? That's two stupid questions. Now 
>> what, are we done with that crap?
> 
> BOTH questions are stupid---or, more precisely, facetious and 
> rhetorical, purely designed to irritate---and RN is simply, and 
> self-deprecatingly, pointing out the truth by calling both questions, 
> and all of the facetious leading questions that are asked around here, 
> which  in my view you would never ask in person---they would sound 
> aggressive, and mean, and, yes, stupid---crap. One person was not 
> calling another person crap, or stupid. Emotions sometimes cloud our 
> ability to perceive what's really going on. 

Thanks David. I'm glad at least someone got it. What I was 
attempting to do was to stop it turning into another personal 
angst session early on. Didn't work.

Ron N