Yup. Spot on. Great post. DA On Feb 22, 2008, at 6:44 PM, Farrell wrote: > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080223/ba7c0221/attachment.html
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