>If all piano makers would just learn to do all the things that we on the >list say that they should do then we could all go look for other jobs. > >Phil F How can that be? Automobiles have improved immensely in performance, safety, efficiency, longevity, and dependability in the last hundred years, but there are still more than a few auto mechanics in business. If piano manufacturers had continued with, and expanded the R&D some were doing way back when, the pianos available today would be considerably different. They didn't, and it's not. So if all the manufacturers on the planet suddenly (inexplicably) became interested in trying to learn what they could do to improve their products, there are still a lifetime's worth of existing dogs for us piano mechanics to hunt, as well as servicing the new and incrementally improved ones. Had the R&D and evolution in the industry not died a hundred years ago, we might very well not be necessary to piano maintenance by now, in which case we would all be doing something else and wouldn't know the difference. We are, after all, doing piano work because we don't know about the other higher paying jobs we're better suited to, and should have gone for if we'd only known. Without dissatisfaction, there can be no progress.
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