resource management

[Avery Todd]

Del,

I haven't even seen anything THAT bad in Houston. Yet! :-)
Unbelievable. Although when I was living in San Angelo, TX, I
did see an upright with new hammers that looked like an ocean
wave from left to right. Thankfully, it wasn't my job to
straighten it out. Another tech just called me to come look at
it because it was so unbelievable!

Avery

At 11:54 AM 10/25/02 -0700, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: October 22, 2002 4:56 PM
>Subject: resource management
>
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> > One of the pianos on my schedule today was described over the phone when
> > the appointment was made as a rebuilt Steinway. Is I was driving out,
> > knowing no more about it than it's being "rebuilt", I went over the mental
> > checklist of what I expected to find - and not find. I wasn't
>disappointed,
> > which disappointed me... again.
> >
> > snip--snip--snip
> >
> > So now there sits a truly lousy sounding and playing piano of vastly
> > greater potential than was realized by the standard dealer rebuild I've
> > come to know and expect in this part of the world.
> >
> > more snip--snip--snip
>
>
>Wimps! You're all wimps!
>
>Can't take a little 'cosmetic rebuilding' in stride? Slows you down? Upsets
>your day? Dampens your spirits? Find it all a little discouraging?
>
>Well, I'll show you what real rebuilding is all about!
>
>The owner--a piano teacher new to the area--called to have her piano tuned.
>It also had been rebuilt and that not long before she moved to our area (at
>the time Portland, Oregon). No, there wasn't anything unusual we should know
>about--she'd had the piano checked over by the rebuilder doing the work just
>before she moved. A rebuilder who has (Had? I can only hope!) a truly
>individual and unique perspective on his life's work. To illustrate his
>concept more graphically than words could convey I offer these few pictures
>of the action--see the attached....
>
>Regards,
>(And hang in there! It's a rough world, folks!)
>
>Del
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