[CAUT] CAUT endorsement

[Ron Nossaman]

William Monroe wrote:
>To take that as the PTG endorsing non-S&S practices for S&S pianos is a 
> stretch.  The PTG is not the S&S rep, and has no business or need to 
> "take a stand" for "the right way" to service S&S pianos.

I've always wondered why so nearly universally, anything we 
propose to do with a piano is automatically judged against the 
Stein-way. I've heard some pretty darned nice sounding pianos 
authored by other manufacturers, lacking the presupposed 
genetic superiority, yet performing well above the "standard" 
rainbow curve. As long as Steinway is automatically presumed 
to be the standard, regardless of whatever random set of 
attributes and deficiencies is demonstrably extant in any 
individual instrument, all hope of either realistic evaluation 
or progress, remains lost. At what point does a trade become a 
religion?

Maybe the PTG ought to be dedicating itself daily to endorsing 
and marketing what I do, to increase my market and income 
potential. Yea, that sounds good.
Ron N