Pilgram's Progress, (was electric)

[Avery Todd]

Nicely said, Brian. (More comments below.)

At 06:11 PM 01/06/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings Ed,
>
>I have no problem with your way of looking at things at all.
>
>We are all different.  Some of us like more variety.  Some of us enjoy
>becoming more familiar with a particular brand or two.  Some of us like
>tuning.  Some of us like shop work.  Some like the concert stage.  Some like
>sales and marketing.
>
>I would never consider telling a heart specialist that he was less of a
>doctor because he didn't work on ingrown toenails.  I wouldn't think of
>telling a podiatrist that he was less of a doctor because he didn't do brain
>surgery.
>
>Different people have different callings in life.  We all have different
>areas of this work that bring us more satisfaction and enjoyment than
>others.
>
>Live and let live.  I like Jon's comments about working with other
>professionals in his area, sending them the tunings he doesn't want, and in
>turn having them send him the shop work they don't want.  Not everyone wants
>to be a "general practitioner".  For those who do, God bless you, you are
>certainly valuable members of our trade.  For those who enjoy a 'specialty',
>God bless you as well.  You're no less valuable because you don't "do
>everything", but valuable in that you do some important things very well.

    This is basically what I now do. Part of it _is_ that I don't want to 
do those
kinds of pianos any more. I did them for over 20 years and learned a LOT from
doing so. Mostly though, it's because of my university job. With 126 pianos
and hundreds of concerts and recitals each semester, I just don't have the
time to do much off-campus work. But when I do, I now want it to be on an
instrument I enjoy working on and working with the customer to bring it up
to its fullest potential, re: regulating, voicing, etc.

>Just my $0.02
>
>Brian Trout
>Quarryville, PA
>btrout@desupernet.net

Avery