two off topics.............. Off- being operative.

[Joe And Penny Goss]

two off topics.............. Off- being operative.Amen!
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Farrell 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 7:44 PM
  Subject: Re: two off topics.............. Off- being operative.


  Thanks for sharing Les. Very interesting. I do however disagree with you on one point: All that you posted is entirely ON-topic!

  Terry Farrell
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Leslie Bartlett 
    To: pianotech at ptg.org 
    Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 9:28 PM
    Subject: two off topics.............. Off- being operative.


    There is no legitimate reason to continue the Guild.  I met a man from a place here locally "Everything piano".  Old pickup pulling a trailer. He does "everything", is not associated with the Guild.   I asked him "What do you do when you don't know something and need help?"     His response, "WHAT IS IT I DON'T KNOW?" So obviously someone knows it all!  Thus if we simply learn from the one who knows it all................. Truly scary.



    I had a lovely experience today, sort of.  If any tuning of a 100 year old piano can be a good experience, I had one.....   I groaned out loud when I saw it- lovely case.... you know the kind.  Inside the hammers were all filed very nicely over the entire surface. AHA, another piece of junk on which these suckers put good money and have nothing in return......  Well, not quite so. All original stuff, cracks all over the place, and obviously an old piano which probably should be trashed, but it had been worked on by one Dan McElrath in Anchorage, Alaska.  The guy had done a fair amount of work, even to replacing the let-off button felts, but nothing frivolous.  Pins were awfully loose, but would hold a tune. The piano was actually a couple cents sharp, but close throughout except in the very top.  The more I sat, the more impressed I became that whoever this guy was, he was honest, caring, and judicious in what he did. I asked for his address. They had no address, but did have his phone number and called him, then put me on the phone.   I simply complimented him on carefully selecting what he chose to do and not do, seemingly trying to make something useable, actually useable without claiming it was more than it was,  but bringing out the best which could be reasonably done to an old upright.  He told the piano owner that he seldom got calls from people wanting to thank him for good work- this made his whole day.........     It's such an easy thing, easily forgotten, to acknowledge another's good work, and lift their spirits.  It's something we all can do, and in so doing might be working miracles, not knowing of course what we're really contributing, except our little piece of praise for something we see done well. But it certainly makes a big difference to people who work week after week, year after year, often with little real thanks.    Just wanted to share something we know- it's a very easy thing to take a moment to appreciate a fellow technician or any person who simply has done the quality of work we would like to see offered us, it always pays richly to do so.

    les bartlett 
    houston 
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