[pianotech] Say goodbyebye Folks moving OT

[Dale Erwin]

I always love self effacing  and truthful self evaluation Les. I get it, we all have different learning styles. My laugh is that I say I am sequentially paired. This is not helpful when needing 88 things to complete a task in the piano world and realize routinely that, oops , I miscounted .....again. Cheers
Dale

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On Feb 24, 2013, at 4:11 PM, "Leslie Bartlett" <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I have a sister-in-law who is an actual nut case, been through the hospitals
> and all, finally managing stability.  22 years ago I said to her "We crazy
> people need to stick together."  She wasn't amused. Two decades later she's
> very glad I said that to her. I managed to get through about four pages of
> the exam prep book for the tuning test, and could make it no further. So I
> can tell customers "I don't know if I can tune a piano or not."  Good for a
> few laughs, ice breakers, etc.  But I didn't learn a single thing about
> tuning from the book. Computers and "directions" just don't work well for
> me. I was going to build a 3X4 lean-to under which to roll my lawnmower.
> Well I went to the hardware and started piling lumber on the cart, and ended
> up with an 8X12 shed with seven foot walls, stronger by far than my house,
> and since I didn't know how to do doors, I made an opening I thought was
> about right, and built my own doors to fit.   But after years of WIN7 coming
> out, it's only been in the last month I could actually find the C drive.
> It's an embarrassment, but I have some sort of learning disability and a bad
> memory to boot, and it would take a great deal of effort to learn the "new
> system" which I've seen cursed a number of times on this list.  Besides,
> Ron, if someone isn't at least mildly crazy, where's the interest in knowing
> them.  It's the ends of the bell curve I find fascinating, not the mean....
> Les b
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
> Of Ron Nossaman
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 5:26 PM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Say goodbyebye Folks
> 
> On 2/24/2013 5:01 PM, Leslie Bartlett wrote:
>> Actually it isn't as much nonsense as it seems to be.\
>> Les bartlett
> 
> Nah, you're pretty resilient. You put up with me, don't you?
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> Unless there's a scheduled hit I don't know about...
> 
> Ron N
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