David Love wrote: >I suppose there could possibly be a job where you have to choose between >cosmetics, charges that compromise the payer's ability to pay the mortgage >and some more important functional details, but most of the time you don't. >I don't think we were ever really talking about lining up beckets versus >regulating the action properly. Neither, of course, does not perfectly >aligned beckets mean that the rest of the job was crap. Well, David, another reasonable statement. But check through this entire thread - and you will see that just about everyone here aside from you who advocates lining up the beckets made the statement that it does indicate sloppy workmanship in general. And this is mainly what I am objecting to - the assumption that just because someone pays no attention to a functionally insignificant cosmetic detail means that they don't care about quality workmanship. Which is simply a calumny. I know people who do very fine work - and don't give a hoot about the damned beckets. In my book it just boils down to a silly game of "fussier than thou". And if people choose to fuss with that detail - fine. But please don't denigrate those who do fine work - and choose not to fuss with it. It's just another personal choice. Lined up beckets are just that - lined up beckets. They neither indicate superior workmanship nor sloppy workmanship. Just one small detail thst some people choose to fuss over and others choose to ignore. Let me ask you this - if one were to be paid to examine a rebuilt instrument for purchase, and found on first cursory examination that the beckets were not lined up - and on the basis of that assumed that the wormanship is faulty and therefore killed the sale - would they be giving appropriate service for the fee? I, personally, would call that malpractice. I find it preposterous that people are willing to assume that because a small cosmetic detail is not fussed over, most likely the rest of the workmanship is faulty. It's simply not true. Israel Stein Israel Stein -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091005/c50e0c7d/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Gerald Groot" <tunerboy3 at comcast.net> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning pin height Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:36:15 -0400 Size: 1272 URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091005/c50e0c7d/attachment-0006.eml> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "John Voigt" <jvoigt at gwtc.net> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Piano Equipment for Sale Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:47:35 -0500 Size: 1702 URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091005/c50e0c7d/attachment-0007.eml> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning pin height Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 07:07:35 -0700 Size: 2608 URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091005/c50e0c7d/attachment-0008.eml> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Cy Shuster <cy at shusterpiano.com> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning pin height Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:28:39 -0600 Size: 5198 URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091005/c50e0c7d/attachment-0009.eml> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning pin height Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 07:56:06 -0700 Size: 10071 URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091005/c50e0c7d/attachment-0010.eml> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "William R. Monroe" <bill at a440piano.net> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning pin height Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:44:26 -0500 Size: 1294 URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091005/c50e0c7d/attachment-0011.eml>
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