[pianotech] Simon and Garfunkel

Jude Reveley (Absolute Piano) juderev at verizon.net
Sun Jun 28 09:05:27 MDT 2009


Brian,

I am sorry to have offended you. I chose my words quite poorly so allow me 
to restate. By "out of the scope of your expected work," I meant that the 
time allotted for concert work is seldon enough for addressing any of the 
issues to which Ron O. was referring (ie hammer hanging, regulation and 
certainly scaling). So in a sense I was actually defending you. It was not a 
comment on the scope of your skills.

As for the post title of key levelling, the threads often turn into another 
subject without a title change. Just like these posts have nothing to do 
with Simon nor Garfunkle.

In our area, we are finding more artists having their keyboard tech or 
someone involved with the backline that is already on tour handle piano 
repairs. Diplomacy is one thing, handling the psycology of the artist during 
the gig is another, but I have absolutely no problem with Ron O. bringing 
some attention to the bottoming standard of these most representative 
instruments.

 Respectfully,

Jude Reveley, RPT
Absolute Piano Restoration, LLC
www.absolute-piano.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Wilson" <pianocare2 at bigpond.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 12:30 AM
Subject: [pianotech] Simon and Garfunkel


>
> Jude
> Well you have caught me out. Yes, I am only a part time technician who 
> needs
> more training to understand the basics of piano technology. I thought
> levelling keys had nothing to do with scaling of a piano. Now where do I
> find the book that tells me where to rescale a B model whilst discussing 
> key
> levelling.
> The regulation and hammer hanging being out of my expected scope. Thank 
> you
> for lowering yourself to an insult over your opinion of my work.
> I am in a minority group as I believe that it is not proper to bag a piano
> over a chat page. This list would be huge if we all complained about
> instruments we see every day. Well every few days for me. I hope that if
> this piano was another brand it too would be bagged in an open forum.
> As I said, the promoters of the concert would not be happy with the
> comments. I was asked by a technician what the best piano in the world. I
> tried to give an intelligent and diplomatic answer. He said the best piano
> was the one you are working on right now.
> I attach a photo of a piano in which I have little support in my comments 
> of
> this repair. I said it was a disgrace. So according to others like 
> yourself
> who tell me that I don't know sh_t from clay, that this standard of work 
> is
> ok.
> Thank you but I like to be in the minority.
> Now to email other technicians and manufacturers around the world that 
> they
> better close up and do something else than piano work.
> But wait, there are more photos.....
> Regards
> Brian
> 



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