Fw: refelections

[Andy&Chris Taylor]

Subject: refelections


>Hi Jim
>Point taken, and thanks!
> It was not that I had disrespect for the PTG, as a whole,  I do agree with
>what they are doing and trying to do. But I have met a few that I really
>don't think casts them in the best light possible.
>
> Arrogance is just hit one of my "pet peeves" that I dislike more than
>anything. I realize that every group including the PTG has it's
>'undesirables" and please dont think I am short-sighted enough to make a
>sweeping judgement like that,
>
>Some PTG members I have met are really nice people for the most part, a few
>of them really burn me up, acting like if you are not a member, you have
_no
>right_ doing anything to a piano.
>
>I guess what soured me on the PTG early, was a fellow In Bowling Green
>Kentucky who proudly advertises that fact in the local paper. he sells
>pretty refinished uprights that you could stick your finger through the
>soundboard in places, gutted a nice looking Steinway duo-art reproducer,
>despite my loud protests In his store.
>
>I know that most "piano people" can't profit from the time it takes to
>rebuild any automatic piano. It takes too many man hours to do the job. But
>I _do not_ approve of anyone "gutting" a perfectly rebuildable automatic,
>just to sell the piano. Once these old machines are gone, they are gone
>forever.
>
>Thank God that most ptg members are not like him!
>
>Best Regards
>Andy & Chris Taylor
>"The Lone Arranger"
>Tempola Music Rolls
>"Taylor Made" Just For You
>http://home.swbell.net/tempola/index.htm
>-----Original Message-----
>From: JIMRPT@aol.com <JIMRPT@aol.com>
>To: tempola@swbell.net <tempola@swbell.net>; owner-pianotech@ptg.org
><owner-pianotech@ptg.org>; Wimblees@aol.com <Wimblees@aol.com>
>Cc: pianolists@earthlink.net <pianolists@earthlink.net>
>Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 9:06 AM
>Subject: Re: Re: I Quit!
>
>
>>
>>In a message dated 8/28/98 3:36:46 AM, tempola@swbell.net wrote:
>>
>><<"(including Jim Bryant who
>>
>>took what I posted completely out of context)">>
>>
>>Andy;
>>  I don't feel that I did take it "out of context". I may not have been as
>>gentle or placating, as some were, in my response to your "I Quit !"
>post.....
>>but "out of context"?
>>  With the meaning of 'context' being: " The part of a text or statement
>that
>>surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning.", your
>post
>>was pretty hard to take out of context.
>>
>>  The pianotech list is about pianos, with occasional forays into the
>>esoterical components of humor and technical and even the occasional hissy
>fit
>>:-).  What it is 'not' about is PTG.  Although PTG now sponsors the
>list....it
>>is about piano technical subjects and not the
>testing/standards/expectations
>>of PTG.  The list is for piano techs, and interested others, be they RPT,
>MPT,
>>Associate, IPT, PPG, beginner, Industry Icon, player specialist....in
short
>>piano people.......period.
>>
>>  Your comments; "Grant it, I don't have the "sheepskin" of RPT,PTG, or
>>anything else." and " and could pass the ptg exam without much effort.
such
>>situations as this is the very reason that I have not done so."
...........
>do
>>not add anything to your post if not your seeming disdain for the subject.
>>  That is fine........ no one has asked you on the list to join PTG, or
any
>>other organization for that matter, nor are they likely to.  As for the
>>feeling that "some" have of 'elitism' relative to PTG/RPT status, there
are
>>misguided souls in every organization and I for one decidely dislike being
>>lumped into that category of person, either directly or indirectly.  You
do
>>yourself, as well as list members, a disservice when you do so in a
>>generalized fashion.
>>
>>  For my part you are certainly welcome on the list.
>>Jim Bryant (FL)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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