Days

[Richard Brekne]

Grin... I suppose I deserve this particular admonishment. I stand in the shadow
of somberous shame, wallowing about in wanton waste and humbly beg pardon from
my worthy colleauges whom in their infinante goodness and generosity have
offered my underserving self this one last opportunity at reaching to perhaps
touch... nay dare I say kiss the feet of my benifactors whom ever they be,
however unjustly I in my inadequacy I may deem them. My head is duly bowed.

Ron Nossaman wrote:

> Now Richard, I really don't understand your indefensible insistence that a
> manufacturer was actively trying to deafen you, as an excuse for not
> performing a scheduled tuning. I know that's hard to admit, but it's the
> sad truth. The fact that you have stubbornly refused all these years, to
> invest, whatever the cost, in the equipment necessary to do high level
> professional work under impossible circumstances means that you are hard
> headedly and narrow mindedly refusing to throw yourself on whatever sword
> is offered in order to make that single tuning fee. Shame be on you and
> your profession as a result of your dereliction, sir. You have abandoned
> the faith. A buck is a buck is a buck, and as an alleged professional
> service provider, all jobs offered you must be cheerfully engaged without
> regard to the equitable return in final result against cost in time,
> equipment, mortality, or torchlight parades across the Moors just ahead of
> the scythes and pitchforks. You are, I see, currently engaged in attempts
> at defending yourself in light of your heretical attitudes and villainous
> actions. This is as it should be. Having attended a few of the evening
> receptions at Arlington this year should have made it abundantly clear to
> you that there is no such thing as "too noisy" for truly professional piano
> service people. We shall all try our best to forget this indiscretion - and
> will eventually, but it will require your unreserved and total
> participation and compliance. We will tolerate no further displays of this
> sort. You have been warned, sir!
>
> (ha!)
>
> Ron N

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway