37 steps---delayed response

[Michael Magness]

On Feb 7, 2008 6:02 PM, David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>  I believe the 37 steps is prefaced by all the repair, lubricating etc.
> done first.   I bet your regulation procedure will have some steps too?
>
> David Ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, CA 94044
>
>  ------------------------------
> Original message
> From: "Israel Stein"
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Received: 2/7/2008 12:43:24 PM
> Subject: Re: 37 steps---delayed response
>
>  At 07:44 AM 2/7/2008, you wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> Have you been to LRS?  The 37 steps instructs to go back to..., check
> this, etc.  Just like someone said earlier...
>
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
> near Peoria, Illinois
>
>
> Then why title it and present it as if it were a linear sequence? I think
> Yamaha is sending a mixed message here that is responsible for an awful lot
> of confusion and misunderstanding among piano technicians. You call
> something "37 steps" and an awful lot of people are going to think that you
> do the steps - and then you are finished. And I see a lot of evidence that
> this is actually happening.
>
> Israel Stein
>
>
>
>  I guess that's why I prefer Kawai's circle of refinement to Yamaha's 37
> steps, in the circle of refinement you are seeking to regulate/adjust/refine
> as needed to bring the action to the point of functioning properly rather
> than  following a list of steps some of which may seem/be superfluous. In
> the circle of refinement it is not unheard of to repeat/redo and adjustment
> after performing some of the other adjustments, it's considered another step
> on the road to refinement.
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
> Michael Magness
> Magness Piano Service
> 608-786-4404
> www.IFixPianos.com <http://www.ifixpianos.com/>
> email mike at ifixpianos.com
>
>
>
No Barbara I haven't been to the LRS I'm jest a poor Wisconsin backwoods
hick pianna tech who follows instructions as given. I worked as a private
contractor for over 20 years for a Kawai/Kimball/Samick dealer and had as my
mentor the Baldwin tech who had worked for the former Kimball/Baldwin dealer
prior to leaving their employ to go on his own and later becoming the
Baldwin dealer and becoming the first Samick dealer in the area when Baldwin
went into Chapter 11 Bankruptcy back in '85.

When I see a method called the 37 steps I take it literally, just as I take
a method called the circle of refinement literally. Since the former
requires that I pay them for the acquired knowledge via my transportation,
meals, lodging, etc. plus the sponsership of the competitor of the dealer I
contracted to in a 2 store town. While the latter was provided as a perk of
being the tech for that dealer at no cost to me you will understand how I
became much more familiar with the Kawai method. Between the manuals and the
live support of men like Roger Jolly, Ray Chandler, Don Mannino and others
back when Kawai offered regional support, I devloped a very good working
knowledge of what Kawai meant by the Circle of Refinement.

Mike

-- 
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Michael Magness
Magness Piano Service
608-786-4404
www.IFixPianos.com
email mike at ifixpianos.com
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