query again

[pianoman]

You guys are not answering the question I asked originally.  We already
know how horrible the Horugel is.  In this instance everything IS original
and the piano does pretty well.
Please reread my original post to see if anyone knows the answer.
James Grebe
R.P.T. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"Only my best is good enough"

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> From: Tom Myler <TomMyler@worldnet.att.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: query
> Date: Thursday, November 27, 1997 2:13 PM
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 27, 1997 8:11 AM
> Subject: Re: query
> 
> >James,
> 
> snip
> 
> >Well, enough of that. This list doesn't like horror stories. But you did
> ask...
> 
> snip
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Ok Del, you caught one,  I'll take the bait.
> 
> I respectfully submit that on the whole, this List most certainly does
enjoy
> "horror stories".
> 
> After all, they are a frequently encountered aspect of our work.     At
> best, they're hilarious.   More often, merely amusing.  Often
exasperating.
> Too often, they're irritating.  And every so often, I'm outraged at the
> damage that was done to a piano and/or the fraud that was perpetrated on
a
> piano owner, by someone who misrepresented themself as a qualified
> professional, but was in fact a novice (or fool) who was "learning as
he/she
> went" at the customer's expense.
> 
> Our sharing such stories is harmlessly pleasant shop talk;  In the truly
> sad/outrageous cases, it's cathartic for us to discuss them.
> 
> I found the recent Holier-Than-Thou posturing on this topic (we all know
I'm
> not
> referring to you, Del) to be obnoxious nonsense.   Bad work speaks for
> itself,
> and is fair game for fair comment.
> 
> 
> I also had a story to relate about a Horrigle, also involving a bass
> bridge, but yours was much more  interesting.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards and all that,
> 
> Tom Myler
> "Perhaps the greatest wisdom is
> the awareness of our own ignorance."
>                                          ( John Steinbeck)
> 
>