At 01:15 PM 12/26/2008, you wrote: > > Where do "crap" and "stupid" reside in the >>spectrum? > >Am I to presume then, that "If you were called upon to do a fine >regulation of existing dampers, would you first pull the tray and >install capstans?" was actually a sincere and serious question? > >Ron N It was a serious rhetorical question, with which I was trying to illustrate the aspect of John Delecour's initial posts that I thought had been overlooked...the value of those "archaic" skills. I thought my initial post and subsequent explanation were clear enough, but maybe not. Without actually having experience with the capstan method, I would not have expressed an opinion as to which was better. David Skolnik Hastings on Hudson, NY This sentence followed the one quoted above: >All I said was that, as I interpreted John's comments, one of his >points was that people did develop the skills to do fine regulating >with the 'archaic' system. This from my previous email response >As for the question, it wasn't stupid, it was rhetorical. The >answer was 'no', obviously, I think. Equally obvious (I think) was >my meaning. There is, as yet, still a need for the 'archaic' skill set. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081226/b4208221/attachment.html>
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