hammer problems reply

[pianoman]

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> From: JIMRPT@aol.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: hammer problems
> Date: Thursday, October 02, 1997 5:46 PM
> Dear Jim,
You are right on.
James Grebe 
pianoman@inlink.com

> Howard you sorry rascal I said exactly what I said I said that you said I
> didn't say, (I think thats right) :-)
> 
> What I said I said was;
> "Cmon now give me a break I said "I suppose". "
> 
> What I said was;
> "As for glue, almost anything but CA types I suppose."
>   Now Mr. R. what part of "I suppose" do you not understand?  In redneck
> speak "I suppose" means ' I don't have the vaguest notion whether it will
> work or not because I don't know anything about it.  It is a mostly manly
> representation of ignorance that is accepted, usually with grace, by all
> concerned.
> 
>   In my answer I was trying to opionate on 'the problem' that James had
> presented us and did not feel that it was needed to remind him that the
best
> way to solve the customers problem was to replace the entire set of
hammers.
>   Remember he said  "I have already told them (an elderly couple)",
> indicating to me that replacing the full set had mostly been ruled out.
>  Perhaps I was wrong but....................
>   There is more to this business than doing the "right thing" each and
every
> time a problem pops up. Sometimes the dabgumm situation will not permit
the
> degree of 'rightness' that would be most 'right'.   In that situation we
need
> to do the best we can with the means, material and financial, at hand or
> decline the job.  James asked for opinions on repairing 'those' hammers
and
> everything that does not address his question is helpful but not germane
to
> the question asked.
>  Or am I way off base here? 
> Jim Bryant (FL)