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[Duaine Hechler]

Thank you for the kind words - Alan & David.

For what its worth........

Today, I spent - 7 - hours finishing a player rebuild - which included complete regulation of the piano action (some 
prior at home - aligning / squaring backchecks, new bridle straps, checking for broken / worn out parts, tightening the 
screws, you know the drill); tuning with a whole step pitch raise; installing the bottom and top player actions; 
reinstalling all the peripherals (stack cutoff box, air motor tempo regulator); adding the respective hoses and elbows; 
final adjusting for tempo; final adjusting for tracking; THEN the worst case happened - a note kept playing - ON SITE - 
had to diagnose the problem - had to disassemble and reassemble parts of the top player action (the main vacuum chest, 
ALONE, has - 18 - screws to be R/R) - turned out to be a clogged bleed valve; Finally, putting the cabinet together and 
turn in over to the customer.

Although, there is no rest for the weary, within two comes in the next player and reed organ rebuilds - along with every 
thing else.

On 01/02/2012 10:02 PM, Alan Forsyth wrote:
> *err, no!*
> **
> *You're confusing guests with contributors. It's the contributors who built up the list, by open invitation. It has 
> nothing to do with membership and for my part I'm certainly not prepared to pay dues to be a contributor.  It's the 
> lurkers who are the guests. Duaine may be persona non grata, but he is still a contributor and as such his voice still 
> counts; you have to admit that we have all learned from him even though that may only be not to employ him as an aural 
> tuner.*
> **
> *Just my contribution.*
> **
> *AF*
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Leslie Bartlett <mailto:l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net>
>     *To:* pianotech at ptg.org <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>
>     *Sent:* Monday, January 02, 2012 7:41 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] unsubscribe
>
>     PTG is a club. It's members- those who have rights to influence ongoing
>     decisions, pay hefty dues to be part of the club. They have ongoing
>     discussions and squabbles about the rules of the club. But it's their club.
>     They built up this club with years of hard work and dedication in order to
>     aid each other with their desire to be more capable technicians.
>
>     Those who are not members of the PTG, yet use the PTG list are guests, and
>     it is expected that guests would behave as such. They have no rights, only
>     privileges.  If they want rights, then they should join the club.
>
>     If they want to squabble about the rules, then they should pay the "higher
>     dues" and become RPT's.  That's how the club was set up, and it is the
>     members, not the guests, who only have reason to be discussing the everyday
>     irritations of the group. "Right" is what has been decided over the years by
>     the RPT's.  It simply is the way it is. If guests continually demand
>     "rights", it seems it would be a simple thing to block anyone who has not
>     paid to be a member, and it would seem quite reasonable to do so, as
>     knowledge shared here is free to all, including those who compete with us
>     while complaining, costing us business by building their knowledge base at
>     the expense of the PTG.
>
>
>     I did my share of being an idiot for a year or so, as a guest.........  The
>     rock isn't going to bend, so one either understands and follows the rules,
>     or they will eventually be shunned from sheer irritation of those who have
>     learned the rules......
>     Les Bartlett
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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
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