Dean: As long as we're talking about a customer's piano his is just an academic discussion. When it's your piano it's different. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Dean May Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:55 AM To: 'Pianotech List' Subject: RE: They're out there, but let's try to bring them in the fold Like I said, we didn't know anything about the man to judge his character, ie, call him unethical. You have definitely given us more info with this post, but I still say it is not a good thing to be calling people names- not if you want them to come into the fold. The guild is perceived as an exclusive condescending club by those on the outside. We need to bridge the gap, not widen the chasm. Perhaps this guy wouldn't have done it all on his own for 20 years if 20 years ago he would have felt more welcome. Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 ________________________________ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jon Page Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:00 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: They're out there, but let's try to bring them in the fold >... a self-taught beginning tech who has very limited resources. The guy is in his mid 50's and has been refinishing, restringing and tuning pianos for over 20 years. To say that he doesn't know what an industry standard is for hammer shape is a stretch. I was going to taper the set but now I'm going to just knock off (arc) the square tail with a belt sander since they are pitched 3 degrees forward - overstriking. He did deftly saw hammer heads for clearance problems (jpg attached). >...So go ahead and judge the work Ok, so he's unobservant. Then to say he lacks comparative reasoning or self evaluation probably is too unkind too, and he only has his head stuck in the sand. Where I come from, someone like that is referred to as a hack. Dean, I can send you his name so you can do the hand-holding and bring him into the Guild, that is, unless he thinks he knows everything already. I don't see his name in the PTG Directory. If a desire for self improvement doesn't work, maybe shame will. -- Regards, Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080401/0609c168/attachment.html
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