underwriter lab (was "What would you do?")

[Richard Brekne]

Sorry Ron.. must have misread your posting on this. Sometimes I read a bit too
quickly... grin... and here I thought we had aggreed on something.. :)

Well, as Gina points out this is probably a better topic for the PTG-L list so I
suppose I will let it lie here. In any case I understand your criticisms of such
ideas.. still I get the feeling we could do something more in this regard then we
do.

Richard Brekne
I.C.P.T.G.  N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway

Ron Nossaman wrote:

>
> Hold on there. I didn't agree at all. I don't think the PTG has any business
> passing judgement on anything as an organization. We are a professional
> organization, not a business or a union. Any opinion proclaimed by the PTG
> regarding any make or model of any piano cannot possibly reflect the opinion of
> the membership, any more than any single member can speak for the rest. The
> discussion on this list has abundantly and interminably illustrated that fact.
> I said that individual techs can very effectively kill a piano sale. All it
> takes is a few well timed remarks. Whether the tech knows what he's talking
> about of not has never been an issue in this kind of situation. He is an
> authority figure to the customer, and has a certain amount of built in
> credibility. The public knows SQUAT about the PTG, and wouldn't pay any
> attention to recommendations from such a source anyway. Throw in the problem of
> finding someone in the organization to make the judgement calls that represent
> the opinions of the members, the likelihood of finding the FTC on the threshold
> by Tuesday, and the probable defamation lawsuits from the manufacturers not
> smiled upon by our appointed representative, and it looks for all the world to
> me like an extremely bad idea.
>
> Count me out.
>
> Ron N