This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment John Omnitek, the PianoMation guy, described the "self-tuning" aspect of = this piano as something the owner would do to keep the piano in tune = between tunings, NOT as a way to eliminate the need for conventional = tunings done by (un?)conventional tuners.=20 Considering the above, I can see where this device might raise the piano = owning publics awarness of tuning and may actually be good for business. = But even if it doesn't, since it is not intended to be installed as a = retrofit, I can't see where it will have much of an impact, at least not = initially. Mark Wisner Yamaha Corporation mwisner@yamaha.com >>> Wimblees@AOL.COM 07/02/02 10:07AM >>> In a message dated 7/2/02 10:25:32 AM Central Daylight Time, pianobuilders@= olynet.com writes:=20 Well, I'll not go on. It's clear that we must trash every new idea that=20 comes along in this business.=20 Del=20 You make some very good points. I will agree that somewhere down the road = this might be a very good workable contraption, which might revolutionize = the music world. Cars and planes were invented, and it developed whole new = industries. But you just don't walk into a hanger and get in a plane. You = can't even drive a car without a license. Yes, almost every one knows how = to drive, but you have to have some degree of training. But what this = contraption is attempting to do, at this point, is like asking the run of = the mill customer to buy a car with a special contraption that automaticall= y changes the oil, adjust the timing, and even clean the spark plugs. If = you asked a mechanic about something like that, they would have the same = reaction I have. It isn't that the invention is useless. I list don't = think it is something that should be sold "over the counter."=20 Wim=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8e/38/d2/33/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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