More like.... if you are certified you dont have any excuses for not doing a good job. Which is why S&S continually gets all these assorted quantities of colorful criticisms to put it nicely. Fact is however.... I'd just love to see someone do a better job of it. Factory setting... real time real life economic realities, market position, etc. etc. ad absurdum. Its all very nice and fine for rebuilders who have the luxury of lavishing all kinds of attention to details simply not possible in a factory setting to get up on their high horses and sneer at a company like Steinway for any faulter at all, or to accuse them of arrogance without even attempting to put oneself in their shoes. Personally, I'd like to see a lot less of this kind of discussion. Its far more interesting and enlightening to hear of all the innovations and different ideas that rebuilders are doing. Just my 2 cents RicB So by the same line of reasoning, only a '57 Chevy rebuilt at the GM ("Authorized") rebuilding facility is an "authentically restored" '57 Chevy, right? It's kinda like the RPT vs non-RPT argument. Just because someone/something is "authorized" or "certificated" doesn't mean that everyone/everything else is unqualified... and from what I see and hear, the factory/dealer doesn't necessarily do a fabulous job, either.
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