Hi Ryan, We have a Greek place here called "the Parthanon". How a true Greek restaurant got here, I won't question. But, George and his family are the absolute best! Kicks Kostas' butt (there in Seattle, if you've been, as we went several times). Now to remind you. Let's let the aural/ETD thing rest awhile...(Duaine's (and us all's) brain needs a rest from the never ending rants!! lol). It'll return, I'm sure. It just does every 6 months or so...I don't know why! Nobody's opinion ever changes!!! Ain't it great? (loved your post about tuning "from the mind". this is totally so! Peace y'all. Hope to get to KC this summer. More discussions over a pint, I'm sure! Paul From: Ryan Sowers <tunerryan at gmail.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: 01/28/2011 02:29 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Counts ....... AH. Portofino! Thanks for the reminder Del. For those of you "non-locals" Portofino is a little restaurant that's in an old victorian house. The owner, Randal lives upstairs and can sometimes be seen working on his bicycle around back. A total shoe-string operation, but the guy knows his food and wine! A real artisan. Ry On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Delwin D Fandrich <del at fandrichpiano.com> wrote: I wonder what this would tell us? Even if (when?) the number of tuners relying solely on an EDT of some sort outnumbered the aural tuners -- I'm wondering what that would prove. There are, after all, far more MacDonald's fast food joints around than there are Portofino's Restaurants. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA del at fandrichpiano.com ddfandrich at gmail.com Phone 360.736.7563 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Duaine Hechler Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:20 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Counts ....... Apparently, arguing and bantering over this issue of aural vs ETD is getting nowhere. So lets turn to facts....not speculation .... cold hard facts ......coming from HQ and/or surveys Can anyone shed the light on some facts, like: How many established aural tuners are out there ? How many established ETD tuners are out there ? How many - new - tuners have started with aural tuning ? How many - new - tuners have started with ETD tuning ? Are the number of persons going after RPT, on the rise or decline ? Are the number of persons, taking and passing the - tuning - portion of the RPT test, on the rise or decline ? These facts should tell the real story ! -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler at att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 11 years -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110128/aa379f52/attachment-0001.htm>
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