Another simple thing to do is make folders in your email program and move email you want to keep into them. Example: Piano stuff. Then, as Barbara said, delete with vigor. David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Barbara Richmond" <piano57 at comcast.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 2/8/2010 3:14:13 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] enough! >Well, Clay, things on this list might not always go as you wish. My advice is to delete >posts before or after you've read them. You can always visit the archives when or if >you want to catch up. >Good luck with whatever your question was! >Barbara (one of the many women on this list) Richmond, RPT >near Peoria, Illinois >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Clayton Bean's Piano Biz" <pianobiz at verizon.net> >To: pianotech at ptg.org >Sent: Monday, February 8, 2010 3:57:49 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central >Subject: [pianotech] enough! >Gentlemen: >Haven't we had enough discussion, rambling, and sniping re Yamaha hammers, etc? >Please, you're clogging up my e-mail box . >I thought this email avenue was for seeking answers to problems. Am I misinformed? >Joe Garrett, Ron and Tom were kind to suggest an answers to my problem and I was >very thankful >- and I will respond to them after my next appt's result. >Thank you for your kindness gentlemen (Anna was also helpful and the only woman >on here so far) >Clay >----- Original Message ----- >From: PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com >To: pianotech at ptg.org >Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 10:00 PM >Subject: Re: [pianotech] Hammer strike line. Was-----Yamaha Hammer Suggestion >Actually, Ron, this deserves a rational response; I might caution you that your >invective is unwarranted. I will say again, since you seemed to miss my point >altogether, that the differences between factory board and bellies, particularly S&S >CC boards and the more recent RC&S boards may account for the differences in >strike line that we are seeing. Two people, as you say, have indicated that there are >apparently demonstrable differences. I would guess that there are probably more. >This is still not a proof of anything as much as it is a surprisingly happy claim which >should lead us to ask why. Is it in the belly construction alone? You will say so. I >might agree, based on my own experience with 100's of new boards, all CC. No, >Ron, I've never built an RC&S board. How does this make me disinterested in >learning something "outside my marketable experience" whatever that means? And >to what semantic bullshit are you referring? You have a knee-jerk reaction going on >here somehow, perhaps to me, perhaps to something else. You've gone beyond civil >conversation here. I invite you to re-read what I've said so far and try again. I >spoke to factory belly/forefinishing on (assumed) CC boards. I'm not threatened by >anything at all; but you are certainly defensive of something. I'm as stupid as the >rest of us. If I've misunderstood anything you've said, consider me a willing, if not >very apt pupil. However, if you take my questions as intentional misdirection, don't >bother to answer them in the future. >Regards, >Paul >In a message dated 2/7/2010 8:36:36 P.M. Central Standard Time, >rnossaman at cox.net writes: >PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com wrote: >> All worthwhile considerations. Yet it is striking, no pun intended, as >> has been pointed out, that RC&S boards _seem_ to need less hammer >> movement. >Why is this so threatening to you? Two people who design and >build these systems in the real world have indicated that it >is either less necessary, or altogether unnecessary to deviate >from a straight strike line for tonal purposes in a RC&S >board. If you, not having built boards like this at all, so >lacking any experience with same, know better than those of us >who have, why don't you inform us as to why we don't know what >we're talking about instead of weaseling around this semantic >bullshit? If you're not interested in learning anything >outside your marketable experience, that's your call, but >someone else might be. This information has been offered in >all honesty as real and verified as valid by building the >damned things and trying it. If you have anything real and >pertinent to contribute besides speculation and misdirection, >please do. >Ron N
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