Thanks Robert. Well said! Avery At 12:14 PM 12/09/02 -0800, you wrote: > > After more than three years of being with this group, I've had enough! > > Pianotech has been turned into a Political battleground, social club, > > lonely hearts club > > with some great piano information buried in this garbage and crap! > >...And your point would be??????? I think you miss the point here. That >"IS" pianotech. Rather than going through this again below is a repost of >my commentary on this topic earlier. Read it. Then re-read it. Then >memorize it. Then if you decide you don't want to be here, well.... don't >hit yourself in the fanny on the way out. The rest of us will still be >here. > > >Rob Goodale, RPT >Las Vegas, NV >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >------------------------------------------------------------------------- ><<RE-POST>> > >I have been on this list continuously now for about six years. I have seen >many names come and go over the years. Some leave and come back, others >have never returned. Frequently some new blood appears. With so many new >people it is no wonder that the same topics recycle again and again with >each new generation. Sometimes people get upset with each other. Then it >passes and all is right again. "Off topics" have littered the list since >the beginning. I suspect they always will. Sometimes there is humor, >sometimes they are serious. > >We've talked about pianos in general, pianists, technical, tuning, >rebuilding, customers not paying bills, advertising, public schools, >universities, budgets, conventions, trade shows, dealers, other technicians, >insurance, financing, general business topics, cats peeing in pianos, pianos >in floods, pianos in fires, pianos that should be burned, vandalism, glue, >strings, hammers, springs, fees, brands, manufacturing, refinishing, wheels, >lids, bushings, center pins, cleaning, tools, wood, just about anything you >can thing of. We've also occasionally discussed politics, off topic humor, >people, places, food, holidays, computers, money, television, movies, >drinking, gambling, sex, and rock and roll. > >Censorship has also been discussed from the beginning. It has never >happened and I think for a very good reason. The majority of us don't want >it. What is the pianotech list? Well... it's about a bunch of technicians >who get together in cyber space and have discussions. We talk on topic, >(most of the time), and occasionally talk off topic. Why? Because we are a >happy group and we have "conversation" just as if we were in a casual >setting at a convention with other technicians. There are no specific rules >here. The general topic is pianos. Sometimes we just goof around a little >bit and have fun doing it. It is a "human" environment where people don't >want to become tech-ish all the time. We get that enough when we're >working. > >So what does this all mean? It means, (and this is my opinion but which I >know it is widely shared), lighten up! Leave the serious forms to the >university chat room geeks who have no life to speak , wear pocket >protectors with a hardware store stuffed in them, and dream about wires and >gears in their sleep. We CAN relax and have fun here and we CAN talk >technical about pianos at the same time. Take a look at your keyboard for a >moment. Just to the right of the "enter" key and just below the "insert" >key there is another little key that says "Delete". If a topic arises that >you don't wish to read or the author of a topic gives you the runs, just >push it and the message will disappear in .00349276 nano-seconds. Then you >will be happy and bubbly again and everything will be right in your world. > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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