On 1/27/2011 5:48 AM, Ed Foote wrote: > Do you want a carpenter that uses > a measuring tape or one that eyeballs everything? Ed, I think that a lot of your points are valid. However, if we are buying custom free form furniture, we probably want the eyeball guy, assuming his eyeball is really good. It's like saying, if we're buying calligraphy or a pen and ink drawing, do we want all the letters exactly the same and all the lines totally straight? Should the paper be totally blindingly white and the ink utterly permanently black? The computer can do that in an instant, but the Durer woodcut still manages to find public acceptance. Not to say that any of us are Durer-class tuning artists. But the ideal remains. This discussion reminds me of a program about Japanese woodworkers. One was visiting an American woodworking club. The shop they were meeting in was fully equipped with all the latest and best technology. If I remember the commentary right, it said, "there were clamps of all kinds, so good that the Devil himself would not have been able to escape them, but [the visiting Japanese] ignored them all and used one rusty nail." Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110127/d908ef13/attachment.htm>
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