Aaaaaaaaannnnnd, there are several many other techs out here listening, more or less quietly, and learning A LOT... and I, being one of them, thank you all very much... if Nothing Else, I know that I don't know everything that I need to know to do some of the jobs that look fairly simple and straightforward on the surface. Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > Steven Hopp wrote: > >> Thank you and I will take all responses from here at face value and use >> what I can. Forgive me. >> > > No problem. Gotta start somewhere, and the beginning is after all, the > beginning. This isn't a factor in this instance, but what I see helping in > the long term in these situations is an attempted analysis (presuming *any* > past experience), indicating that thought was given and an attempt was made > before phoning in. I see people who have been appearing on the list for a > long time "phoning in" first thing, asking knee jerk questions that they > ought to be able to figure out for themselves, and have no sympathy at all > for that. I find that exhausting everything in my experience and imagination > before giving up in despair and asking for help usually results in my > stumbling onto the cause from which I can work out something that takes care > of it - eliminating the need to ask for help. Not everyone's such a > hardhead, but I really hate being outsmarted by inanimate objects, and it > happens altogether too often. Something totally outside my experience is > different, and I'll ask for basic information before just barging in and > screwing it up (usually). > > Bottom line is that no one knows even 0.00000001% of ANYTHING, so we have > to work out our own individual reality however we can. > > Another kit. > Ron N > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100205/ce9eaabe/attachment.htm>
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